


SCHOOL LAWS 



A SUPPLEMENT TO THE 

SCHOOL LAWS OF INDIANA 

1917 EDITION 



Prepared Under the Direction of 

LINNAEUS N. HINES 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 



By 

BENJAMIN J. BURRIS 

Assistant 



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School Laws 

Enacted by the General Assembly of 1919 

Special Session of General Assembly of 1920 and 

General Assembly of 1921. 



A SUPPLEMENT TO THE 

School Laws of Indiana ^- -^-i^ii^ 

1917 Edition 



Prepared Under the Direction of 

LINNAEUS N. HINES 

ilate Superintendent of Public Instruction 



By 

BENJAMIN J. BURR IS 

Assistant 



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March 15, 1921. 

TO SCHOOL OFFICEKS AND TEACHEKS OF INDIANA : 

This pamphlet, containing the school laws passed by the Gen- 
eral Assembly of 1919, the Special Session of the General Assem- 
bly of 1920, and the General Assembly of 1921, has been prepared 
as a supplement to the school Laws, 1917 edition. These publica- 
tions contain all the Indiana laws of practical use and applica- 
tion, relating to the public schools, the higher institutions of 
learning and other closely affiliated institutions. 

This supplement is issued with the hope that it will be found 
both valuable and convenient to school officers and teachers. 

LINNAEUS N. HINES, 
Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



LIBRARY OF CONORS i 

ReCSIVED } 

OCT 5 1922 I 

DOCUMENTS DIVI3! > ' 



AN ACT entitled, An act concerning elementary schools, schools of cor- 
rectional and benevolent institutions, private and parochial schools, 
providing what shall be taught therein, prescribing penalties for 
any violation of this act, repealing all laws in conflict herewith, 
and declaring an emergency. 

[Acts 1919, p. 50.] 

All Subjects to be Taught in English. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That all subjects and branches taught in the elemen- 
tary schools of the State of Indiana and all elementary schools 
maintained in connection with benevolent or correctional institu- 
tions, shall be taught in the English language only, and the 
trustee, and such other officers as may be in control, shall have 
taught in them, orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geog- 
raphy, English grammar, physiology, history of the United States, 
scientific temperance and good behavior, and such other branches 
of learning as the advancement of pupils may require, and the 
trustee, and other officers in control direct : Providedy That the 
German language shall not be taught in any of the elementary 
schools of this state. The tuition in such schools shall be without 
charge. 

German Language Forbidden. 

Sec. 2. All private and parochial schools and all schools main- 
tained in connection with the benevolent and correctional institu- 
tions within this state which instruct pupils who have not com- 
pleted a course of study equivalent to that prescribed for the first 
eight grades of the elementary schools of this state, shall be taught 
in the English language only, and the persons or officers in control 
shall have taught in them such branches of learning as the ad- 
vancement of pupils may require, and the persons or officers ia 
control direct: Provided, That the German language shall not 
be taught in any such schools within this state. 

Penalty. 

Sec. 3. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this 
act shall, upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction, be 
fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars 'and not more 
than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for 
any period not exceeding six months, or both, and each separate 



day in which such act shall be violated shall constitute a separate 
offense. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed. 

Validity of Act. 

. Sec. 5. In case any section or sections of this act shall be held 
to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Indiana such de- 
cision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections. 



AN ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled "An act in relation to 
liigh school", approved March 9, 1907. 

[Acts 1919, p. 822.] 

Commissioned High Schools — Course of Study. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section 2 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 2. The following enumerated studies 
shall be taught in all commissioned high schools throughout the 
state, together with such additional studies as any local board of 
education may elect to have taught in its high school : Provided^ 
That such additions shall be subject to revision of the state board 
of education. Mathematics: Commercial arithmetic, algebra, 
geometry. History : United States, ancient, medieval or modern. 
Geography : Commercial or physical. English : Composition, 
rhetoric. Literature: English, American. Language (foreign): 
Latin or any modern foreign language except German. Science : 
Biology, physics or chemistry. Civil government : General, state. 
Drawing. Music. 



AN ACT concerning accredited normal schools and colleges and the 
training and licensing of teachers and issuing of provisional and 
life certificates and repealing "An act concerning normal schools and 
the training and licensing of teachers", approved March 11, 1907. 

[Acts 1919, p. 753.] 

Prescribe Courses of Study— Certificates Recognized by State 
Normal. 

Sec. 2. The state teachers' training board shall have power and 
authority to prescribe courses of study upon completion of which 



graded certificates of worlv done iriny be granted by any such 
accredited school, which certificate shall be recognized by the Indi- 
ana State Normal School so far as such certificates meet the re- 
quirements of said school's course. 

"Accredited" School or Department. 

Sec. 5. Said state teachers' training board shall grant to each 
school and department accepting the provisions of this act and 
agreeing to be bound by the rules and regulations of said board 
the right to use the word "accredited" as a part of the title or 
name of such school or department, which right shall be revoked 
by said board at any time upon the refusal of any such school or 
department to abide by any rule or regulation of said board. 

Life Certificate — To Whom Issued. 

Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of the state teachers' training 
board to issue without examination to every holder of a state ele- 
mentary provisional certificate, issued under the provisions of 
this act, a life certificate of like force and effect upon satisfactory 
evidence that the holder thereof has completed at least two (2) 
years of successful teaching in the public elementary schools with- 
in the life of said provisional certificate; and to issue without 
examination a life state high school certificate to the holder of a 
high school provisional certificate, issued under the provisions of 
this act, for teaching in any high school in the state the subjects 
in which he has earned two (2) full years of credit, upon satis- 
factory evidence that the holder thereof has completed at least 
two (2) years of successful experience in high school teaching in 
said subjects. 

Power to Revoke Certificate. 

Sec. 9. That the state teachers' training board shall have power 
and authority to revoke any certificate issued under the provisions 
of this act, upon satisfactory evidence that the holder thereof is 
guilty of immorality, incompetency, neglect of duty or for the 
promulgation of any tenet or doctrine in conflict with the ideals 
and principles of our government. 

Inspection and Supervision of Teachers' Training Courses. 

Sec. 11. That the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
with the approval of the state teachers' training board, may ap- 



point a suitable person to inspect and supervise said teachers' 
training courses and professional courses in said accredited 
schools and departments, under the direction of the state superin- 
tendent of public instruction and the state teachers' training 
board. The salary and term of office of such person shall be fixed 
by the state teachers' training board and he shall be removable 
only by said board. 



Classification of Graduates. 

Sec. 12. That the state teachers' training board be, and the 
same is hereby authorized to make proper classification of the 
graduates of the two year and four year teachers' training courses 
provided for in this act, for the purpose of ascertaining the mini- 
mum wage to which such graduates are entitled. 

Board May Countersign Life Certificates of Foreign Teachers. 

Sec. 15. That the state teachers' training board may counter- 
sign life state certificates of teachers of other states when the 
holders of such certificates shall have furnished satisfactory evi- 
dence of good moral character and experience and success in 
teaching, as is required for life state certificates under the pro- 
visions of this act and when so countersigned such certificates 
shall be valid in any of the schools of this state : Provided^ That 
the requirements for obtaining the life certificates of other states 
shall be equivalent to the requirements for the same certificates 
in this state. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 16. That an act entitled "An act concerning normal 
schools and the training and licensing of teachers", approved 
March 11, 1907, be and the same is hereby repealed. 

NOTE 1 : Sections 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13 and 14 of the foregoing act were repealed 
by Chapter 110 of the Acts of 1921. See page 7, this supplement. 



AN ACT to amend sections 1, 3, 4, G, 7, 10, 13 and 14 of an act entitled 
"An act concerning accredited normal schools and colleges and the 
training and licensing of teachers and issuing of provisional and life 
certificates and repealing *An act concerning normal schools and the 
training and licensing of teachers,' approved March 11, 1907." Law 
without signature of governor (1919). 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 110.] 

State Teachers' Training Board — Powers and Duties. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That the state board of education, in 
addition to its present powers and duties, shall be and is hereby 
constituted a state teachers' training board, and, as such, is au- 
thorized and directed to arrange for a regular system of normal 
school instruction throughout the state; to accredit such schools 
and professional departments in schools as shall comply with the 
standard now in full force as hereafter fixed by the legislative 
enactment in the state system of normal school instruction; to 
establish, inspect, pass upon and approve, reject, alter, amend or 
enlarge courses of study and teaching in the several accredited 
normal schools and the accredited professional departments in 
schools of the state; to determine upon credits to be allowed for 
the work of accredited schools and departments, and equivalents, 
if any, to be accepted for such work, or any part thereof ; and to 
determine upon the school grades or years to which each kind of 
teachers' certificates shall apply. Said board shall make no rule, 
regulation or requirement applying to any accredited school or 
department which shall not under like circumstances apply to 
each and every accredited school and department in the state, nor 
shall any requirement be in excess of the requirements of the In- 
diana state normal school ; it being the purpose and intent of this 
act that all schools and departments for normal instruction and 
the training of teachers shall maintain as nearly as possible like 
standards of excellence and efficiency. 

Authority to Approve Courses — Percentage of Credits. 

Sec. 2. That section 3 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 3. That the state teachers' training 
board be and t^ie same is hereby authorized to establish an ap- 
proved two years' course, an approved three years' course, and an 
approved four years' course for the training of teachers in any 



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accredited school or department, maintaining a practice teaching 
department: Provided, That not less than one-fifth (1/5) of the 
number of credits in said courses shall be in professional su"bjects 
including observation and practice teaching. 

Provisional Certificates. 

Sec. 3. That section 4 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 4. That a graduate from any such two 
years' teachers' course shall be granted by the state teachers' 
training board, a provisional elementary certificate valid, when 
countersigned by the state superintendent of public instruction, 
for four (4) years thereafter for teaching in any public elemen- 
tary school in the state without examination: Provided, That 
said teachers' course of which such person is a graduate, has been 
and is approved by the state teachers' training board ; and that a 
graduate from any such three (3) years' teachers' course shall be 
granted by the state teachers' training board, a provisional junior 
high school certificate, valid when countersigned by the state su- 
perintendent of public instruction, for four (4) years thereafter 
for teaching in any approved junior high school in the state, with- 
out examination, the subjects in the approved course in which he 
has earned one (1) full year of credit : Provided, That said teach- 
ers' course, of which such person is a graduate, has been and is 
approved by the state teachers' training board, and that a grad- 
uate from any such four (4) years' teachers' course shall be gran- 
ted by the state teachers' training board, a provisional high school 
certificate valid, when countersigned by the state superintendent 
of public instruction, for four (4) years thereafter for teaching in 
any high school in the state, without examination, the subjects 
in the approved course in which he has earned two (2) years' 
credit : Provided, That said teachers' course of which such person 
is a graduate, has been and is approved by the state teachers' 
training board. 

Unlawful Use of Word ''Accredited"— Penalty. 

Sec. 4. That section 6 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any school 
or department, for normal instruction and the training of teach- 
ers, or any college, business school, or correspondence school, 
which has not accepted the provisions of this act or whose author- 
ity under this act has been revoked to use the word "accredited" 



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as a part of its name or title or to state that such school or depart- 
ment has been accredited. If any officer, employee, agent, owner, 
or part owner, or instructor or teacher in any school or depart- 
ment for normal instruction and the training of teachers which 
has not been accredited as provided herein or whose authority 
hereunder has been revoked, as herein provided, shall use the word 
"accredited" as a part of the name or title of such school or de- 
partment, or shall publish, advertise, announce or say that such 
school or department is accredited, upon conviction of the same, 
he shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars 
(1500). 

Provisional Special or Supervisor's Certificate. 

Sec. 5. That section 7 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 7. That a graduate from any such two 
years' teachers' course, having pursued special teaching or super- 
visory courses therein, in music, drawing, penmanship, manual 
training, physical culture, domestic science, agriculture, kinder- 
gartening or such other studies as are required to be taught by 
special teachers or supervisors, be granted by the institution, in 
which said course or courses are completed, a provisional special 
or supervisors' certificate in such subject or subjects valid for four 
(4) years thereafter for teaching or supervising such subject or 
subjects, in any public elementary school in the state without 
examination: Provided^ That the special or supervisors' course, 
of which such person is a graduate, has been approved by the state 
teachers' training board. 

Fee For Life Certificate. 

Sec. 6. That section 10 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 10. That each applicant, on receiving a 
life certificate under the provisions of this act, shall pay to the 
state teachers' training board a fee of five dollars (|5.00) ; and 
that each graduate, on receiving a provisional certificate, under 
the provisions of this act, shall pay to the state teachers' training 
board a fee of one dollar ($1), which amount shall be paid by the 
board to the state treasurer and applied toward defraying the nec- 
essary expense incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act. 
Any unexpended balance on the first day of January of each year 
shall be paid into the state teachers' pension fund. 



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Life Certificates for Teachers Now in Service — Qualifications. 

Sec. 7. That section 13 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 13. That teachers now in service who 
have had at least 45 months of successful teaching experience and 
who have earned at least two full years' (60 semester hours) 
credit in a standard normal school, college or university shall be 
granted a life certificate for teaching in the elementary schools of 
the state. 

That a teacher now in service who has had at least 45 months 
of successful teaching experience and who is a graduate of a four 
years' course in a standard normal school, college, or university 
shall be granted a life certificate for teaching in any high school of 
the state those subjects in which he has earned two full years' 
credit and also those subjects in which he is now licensed, upon 
satisfactory evidence that he has completed at least two years of 
successful experience in high school teaching of those subjects. 

Provided^ further^ That teachers in service who had completed 
less than 45 months successful teaching experience prior to May 
15, 1919, and who meet the educational qualifications of the two 
and three and four year courses provided for in this act, shall be 
granted a provisional certificate in like manner and of like force 
and effect as are issued to graduates from courses approved subse- 
quent to that date. ' 

Institutions in Other States — Graduates. 

Sec. 8. That section 14 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 14. That the state teachers' training 
board shall keep a record of approved institutions in other states 
maintaining a course for the training of teachers equivalent to the 
two (2) and three (3) and four (4) year courses provided for in 
this act; and that graduates from such courses in such approved 
institutions in other states may be granted provisional and life 
state certificates from approved courses in accredited institutions 
in this state. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 9. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from 
and after its passage. 



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AN ACT to amend sections 1, 2, 6 and 9 and to repeal sections 4 and 11 
of an act entitled "An act providing for regulating the transfer and 
transportation of children to schools," law without signature of the 
governor (1917). 

[Acts 1919, p. 66.] . 

Drivers — Qualifications. 

Sec. 3. That section G of tlie above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section G. It shall be the duty of township 
trustees to hire drivers for such wagons or conveyances who shall 
furnish safe teams except when automobiles are used. In all 
cases such drivers shall be eighteen (18) years of age or older and 
of good moral character, and must be experienced in the handling 
of teams or the driving of automobiles, depending on which is 
used. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 5. That sections 4 and 11 of the above entitled act be and 
the same are hereby repealed. 

NOTE 1 : Sections 1, 2 and 4 of the foregoing act were repealed by Chapter 253 of 
the Acts of 1921. See page 11, this supplement. 



AN ACT providing for and regulating the transfer and transportation of 
children to public schools, providing for making transfer settlements, 
and repealing certain other laws. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 253.] 

School Transfers — Reasons for Issuing Transfers. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Oeneral Assembly of the State 
of Indiana;, That whenever any child, resident in any school cor- 
poration of this state, can be better accommodated in the public 
schools of another school corporation, the school trustee or board 
of school trustees or board of school commissioners of the school 
corporation in which such child resides, shall, upon application of 
the parent, guardian or custodian of such child, made at any time, 
grant an order of transfer, which shall entitle such child to attend 
the schools of the corporation to which such transfer is made, 
under the conditions hereinafter prescribed: Provided, That in 
determining whether a child can be better accommodated in the 
schools of another school corporation than that in which ^uch 



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child resides, such matters as the proximity of the schools of the 
township and city to the residence of such child desiring the trans- 
fer, the kind and character of the roads to each, the means of 
transportation, if any, to each the crowded conditions of the 
schools in either of the two corporations, shall be pertinent : And, 
provided, further, That the desire to attend a commissioned or 
accredited high school, when no such school is maintained in the 
resident school corporation, or when, in attending such commis- 
sioned or accredited high school, the living expenses can be more 
advantageously provided for in another school corporation, or 
when such commissioned or accredited high school in another 
school corporation is more accessible, shall be deemed reasons for 
such transfer: And, provided, further, That when pupils live 
within a distance of one mile nearer another school in the same 
or a different township in the same or a different county than the 
school to which they are assigned, it shall be the duty of the 
township trustee upon application from the parent, guardian or 
custodian of such pupils to issue a transfer to the nearer school, 
except that in cases where township conveyance is regularly fur- 
nished such pupils, the difference in distance between schools shall 
be two (2) miles before a transfer can be demanded. 

School Transportation. 

Sec. 2. That in all school corporations of this state, where a 
school has been abandoned within the last twenty (20) years, or 
may hereafter be abandoned, the school trustees shall provide and 
maintain means of transportation for all pupils of such abandoned 
school who live a greater distance than one and one-half (li/^) 
miles from the schools to which they are assigned: Provided, 
That township school trustees, boards of school trustees and 
boards of school commissioners may provide means of transporta- 
tion for any pupils in any school district or school corporation, if 
the conditions in the school district or school corporation, in the 
judgment of the township trustee, board of school trustees or 
board of school commissioners warrant the same: Provided, 
further. That school trustees be and they are hereby empowered at 
their discretion to transport high school pupils. 



Transfer and Transportation Claims — How Paid. 

Sec. 3. That the expense of the transportation of school chil- 
dren, as necessitated by the provisions of this act, shall be paid 



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out of the special school fund, and the expense of transfers shall 
be paid out of the special school fund or the township fund or the 
tuition fund, as now provided by law. The cost of transfers for 
any child in any case shall be that of the per capita cost per pupil 
of the school to which said child is transferred. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 4. That section one (1) of an act entitled "An act to 
amend section 1 of an act entitled 'An act regulating the transfer 
of children from one school corporation to another, and fixing the 
price of tuition, repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict 
therewith, and declaring an emergency,' " approved March 5, 1909, 
and sections 1, 2, and 4 of an act entitled "An act to amend sec- 
tions 1, 2, 6 and 9 and to repeal sections 4 and 11 of an act entitled 
'An act providing for regulating the transfer and transportation 
of all children to school,' " approved February 26, 1919, be and the 
same are hereby repealed. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Section 272 of the school laws of 1917 ; also Sec- 
tions 1, 2, and 4, Acts of 1919, P. 66. The acts of 1919, P. 66, repeal, 
either directly or by implication, Sections 271n, 271o, 271q, 271s, 271v 
and 271x of the school laws of 1917. 



AN ACT to prevent accident [s] on public liighways, and providing pen- 
alties for the violation thereof. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 591.] 

School Hack — Unlawful to Pass While Unloading — Penalty. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, It shall be unlawful for any person driving any auto- 
mobile, motor truck or other motor vehicle, upon the public high- 
way, on overtaking or meeting any school hack engaged in trans- 
porting school children to or from school, to pass such school hack 
while the same is being loaded or unloaded with such school 
children. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall 
on conviction thereof be fined in any sum not to exceed twenty-five 
dollars. 




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AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 
one (1) of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the election of 
school trustees in cities and incorporated towns, prescribing their 
terms of office and their powers and duties in relation thereto, and 
repealing all laws in conflict therewith', approved March 6, 1905," 
approved February 27, 1915. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 801.] 

Election of School Trustees in Cities or Incorporated Towns — 
Term of Office. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended 
to read as follows : Section 1. That the common council of each 
city and the board of trustees of each incorporated town of this 
state shall at a regular meeting of such common council or board 
of trustees^ after the incorporation of such city or town elect three 
(3) school trustees, one of whom may be a woman, who shall hold 
their offices one (1), two (2) and three (3) years, respectively, 
from and after the first day of the next succeeding August, and 
not more than two (2) of whom shall be adherents of the same 
political party. The term of each of said trustees shall be deter- 
mined by lot at the time of such election by such common council 
or board of trustees, and annually thereafter the common coun- 
cils of each city and the board of trustees of each incorporated 
town, at their regular meetings in the month of June, shall elect 
one (1) school trustee, who shall hold his office for three (3) years 
from the first day of the next succeeding August. Such trustees 
shall constitute the school board of the city or town, and before 
entering upon the duties of their offices they shall take an oath 
faithfully to discharge the duties of the same. They shall meet 
within five (5) days after the first day of August of each year and 
organize by electing one (1) of their number president, one (1) 
secretary and one (1) treasurer. The treasurer before entering 
upon the duties of his office shall execute a bond to the acceptance 
of the county auditor in a sum equal to the amount of money 
which may come into his hands at any one time during the year 
by virtue of his office. Provided^ That in case of a newly incor- 
porated city or town such trustees shall meet within five (5) days 
of their election and organize by electing the officers and giving 
the bonds as herein provided, which officers and bonds shall be 
continued until the first day of August next succeeding such or- 
ganization. All vacancies that may occur in said board of school 
trustees shall be filled by the common council or board of trustees 



of the town, but such election to fill a vacancy shall only be for the 
unexpired term. The board of school trustees shall within five (5) 
days after the first day of August of each year reorganize their 
boards and the treasurer thereof shall execute a bond for the en- 
suing year. Said trustees shall receive for their services such com- 
pensation as the common council of the city or the board of trus- 
tees of the town may deem just, which compensation shall be paid 
from the special school revenue of the city or town. 



AN ACT to amend section 10 of an act entitled "An act providing for 
the government of the state university, the management of its funds, 
and for the disposition of the lands thereof," approved June 17, 1852. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 735.] 

State University — Free Contingent Fees of Students. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section 10 of the above entitled act be amended 
to read as follows : Section 10. The trustees shall provide for the 
payment of all contingent fees free of charge, of two (2) students 
from each county in this state, to be selected by the county super- 
intendent of schools upon a basis of scholarship attained during 
the entire course of high school training in the high schools of 
said county. First preference shall be given to the student having 
the highest general average over his or her entire high school 
course as given in the high schools of said county and all succeed- 
ing preferences shall be given according to the comparative rank 
of such general average. Provided^ however ^ That none of the pro- 
visions of this act shall apply to other than first year academic 
students. 



AN ACT to provide for the organization and maintenance of junior high 
schools, for the courses of study and the licensing of teachers therein. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 440.] 

Junior or Intermediate High School Courses. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That boards of school trustees, board of school commis- 
sioners, or township trustees, having in charge commissioned high 
schools, may prescribe junior high school or intermediate school 
courses of two or three years in length, and admit thereto pupils 



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that have completed the sixth year of elementary school work. 
The first two years of such intermediate school course may include 
instruction in the subjects generally taught in the seventh and 
eighth grades of the elementary schools, and may include such 
other stuc^ies, including secondary, pre-vocational and industrial 
subjects, as such boards of school trustees, boards of school com- 
missioners, or township trustees may precribe, and the State 
Board of Education approve. 

Teachers Employed — License. 

Sec. 2. Teachers employed in such junior high schools or inter- 
mediate schools shall be required to hold licenses only in the sub- 
jects they are required to teach and also in English and the Sci- 
ence of Education. 

Textbooks — Courses of Study. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Board of School Book 
Commissioners to adopt textbooks, to publish suggestive courses 
of study, and to devise report forms suitable to such junior high 
schools or intermediate schools. 

Transfers and Admissions. 

Sec. 4. Transfers from other school corporations and admis- 
sions from other school districts in the same corporation to the 
corporation' or school district maintaining such junior high school 
or intermediate school shall be granted by the board of school 
trustees, board of school commissioners or township trustee, con- 
cerned, on request, and in conformity with existing transfer laws. 



AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act permitting in- 
corporated towns to assume indebtedness of its school town, pro- 
viding for the payment of such indebtedness and declaring an emer- 
gency", approved February 23, 1917, 

[Acts of 1919, p. 828.] 

Town Trustee May Assume Indebtedness of School Town — 
Provisions. 

Section 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That the trustees of any incorporated town, the inhab- 
itants of which do not exceed two thousand (2,000), as shown by 
the last preceding United States census, may assume on behalf of 



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such town any indebtedness of its corresponding school town, not 
exceeding five thousand dollars (f5,000), for the purpose of plac- 
ing the school property of such school town in a status to be trans- 
ferred to the school township of the township in which such school 
town is located, as provided by law : Provided^ Such assumption 
will relieve the school town of all indebtedness: and Provided, 
further, That the school township trustee of the township in which 
such town is situated shall undertake and agree upon the transfer 
to the school township of such school property to erect a conven- 
ient township central school building of sufficient capacity to com- 
fortably serve the school needs of such school town and school 
township : Provided, lioioever, That the board of trustees of any 
incorporated town in this state, the inhabitants of which do not 
exceed two thousand (2,000) as shown by the last preceding 
United States census, and having a school indebtedness of seven- 
teen thousand dollars (|17,000) or more, may, on behalf of such 
civil town, assume any portion of the indebtedness of any such 
corresponding school town not exceeding in the aggregate two- 
thirds (2/3) of the total amount of such indebtedness : Provided, 
That such assumption of indebtedness by such civil town shall 
place such corresponding school town in a condition to continue 
the schools of such town. 



AN ACT providing for the transfer of pupils from a liigh school of one 
school corporation to a high school of another school corporation, 
and providing, for payment of tuition, 

[Acts of 1919, p. 140.] 

Hi^h School Transfers. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assemhly of the State 
of Indiana, "That whenever any pupil, who is a resident of any 
city or town of this state, resides within two miles of a high school 
in an adjoining city or town, and more than four miles from the 
nearest high school of the city or town in which such pupil resides, 
then, upon application made by the parent, guardian or custodian 
of such pupil, to the board of school trustees of the city or town in 
which such pupil resides, it shall be the mandatory duty of such 
board of school trustees to grant an order of transfer to such 
pupil to the nearest high school in such adjoining city or town, 
which shall entitle such pupil to attend said high school. The 



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tuition for such pupil shall be paid in the manner and in such sum 
as is xDrovided by the law governing other transfers from one high 
school to another." 



AN ACT to amend section 3' of an act entitled "An act to enable counties 
to receive donations of buildings and grounds for high-school pur- 
poses, and to provide for the maintenance of the same, and declar- 
ing an emergency". Law without signature of Governor (1889). 

[Acts of 1919, p. 715.] 

County High School Buildings — Trustees to Levy Tax. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section 3 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 3. It shall be the duty of such board of 
trustees : First. To levy annually a tax for the support of said 
county school, on the taxable property of all townships, towns and 
cities of such county in which no commissioned high school is 
maintained by the school corporation thereof which tax shall be 
assessed and collected as- the taxes for state and county revenues 
are assessed and collected: Provided^ That no such tax levy in 
any one (1) year, shall exceed the sum of fifteen cents (15c) on 
each one hundred dollars (flOO) of the taxable property in their 
respective counties. Second. To take control of all property be- 
longing to said school and to make all necessary improvements 
and repairs to the same to organize such school and adopt and en- 
force rules for the government of the same, purchase apparatus 
and general supplies, employ and pay teachers, appoint superin- 
tendent, establish a course of study in compliance with the laws 
of the state relative to courses of study and the rules and regula- 
tions of the State Board of Education issued in reference thereto ; 
subject to the conditions hereinafter perscribed, to admit to such 
county school or to furnish by transfer, high school advantages 
without cost of tuition to all pupils who are prepared to enter the 
high school department of the common schools, and who are resi- 
dents of any township, town or city subject to taxation for the 
maintenance and support of such county school; subject to the 
conditions hereinafter prescribed, to fix terms and rules for admit- 
ting pupils not resident of their respective counties, and to do all 
other necessary acts for the proper management of said school. 

All laws of the state now or hereafter in force shall apply with 
reference to the transfer of children of school age for school pur- 



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poses, and the board of trustees of such county school shall possess 
all the powers and be subject to all the provisions of law now in 
force or hereafter enacted relative to the transfer of school chil- 
dren. 



AN ACT providing for tlie consoliflation of township schools with the 
schools of incorporated towns in (he township in certain cases. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 830.1 

Consolidation of Town and Township Schools. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That any incorporated town in this state having a pop- 
ulation of not to exceed two thousand (2,000) as shown by the last 
preceding United States census, by and through its board of 
school trustees, and the township wherein such town is situated, 
in all cases where all the township schools outside of such incor- 
porated town are consolidated, and wherein such township has 
and maintains a consolidated township graded and high school, 
and where the town and township existing law maintain a joint 
graded and high school within such incorporated town, by and 
through the trustees of such township, are hereby authorized and 
empowered to contract with each other, on behalf of such town 
and such township, relative to all matters pertaining to the use of 
such joint school located within such incorporated town by all of 
the inhabitants of such township, including the inhabitants of 
such town, and relative to all matters pertaining to the joint care, 
custody, repairs, management, maintenance, support, conduct 
and control of such joint common or grade schools and high 
schools located within the corporate limits of such town, and in 
any such contract it may be provided that the expense of such 
joint care, custody, repairs, management, maintenance, support, 
conduct and control of such joint grade and high school which is 
located within such incorporated town, shall be borne pro rata by 
such incorporated towm and by such township, respectively, in 
such proportion as the assessed valuation of the taxable property 
of such township, outside of such town, and which is within said 
joint township and town graded and high school district, bears to 
the assessed valuation of the taxable property within such town, 
or that each such school corporation shall assume one-half (i/^) of 
the necessary expense of operating and maintaining such school 
during any school jeav and shall make a levy on the taxable prop- 
erty therein sufficient to produce surjh amount* 



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Act Supplemental. 

Sec. 2. This act shall not be construed to affect or repeal an}- 
existing law but shall be deemed as supplemental thereto. 



AN ACT to amend section 6 of an act entitled "An act relating to con- 
gressional township school lands and the funds arising therefrom, 
in cases where townships are divided by county lines ; providing for 
distribution of the proceeds thereof, prescribing the duties of county 
auditors and other officers relating thereto, fixing compensation of 
auditors, and other matters connected with the subject-matter of 
the act, and declaring an emergency," approved March 12, 1877. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 716.] 

Congressional Township School Lands. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General AssemMy of the State 
of Indiana, That section 6 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 6. The process contemplated by this act 
shall continue so long as any lands remain unsold, or any secur- 
ities are uncollected, and until each county shall have become 
possessed of its proper share of such fund in money, when the ac- 
counts here required to be kept shall be closed and reported as 
aforesaid: Provided, That in the year 1921, and every ten (10) 
years thereafter, there shall be a readjustment of said fund be- 
longing to each congressional township, upon the basis of the 
number of school children enumerated in each part of such con- 
gressional township as hereinbefore provided, and the Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction shall reckon and prepare the re- 
quired amounts due each portion of each divided township, and, 
upon his official notice to the debtor county, the auditor of such 
county having a surplus of such fund, according to such basis 
shall pay to the treasurer of the county interested the amount of 
money due said county upon the per capita basis then existing, as 
reckoned by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



AN ACT providing for appeals from certain decisions of the State Board 
of Health of Indiana and prescribing the procedure therefor. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 471.] 

Appeals from State Board of Health. 

Section 1. Be it enacted "by the General AssemMy of the State 
of Indiana, That an appeal shall hereafter lie from all decisions of 



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the State Board of Health of Indiana in any matter involving the 
building, changing or condemnation of any school building in the 
State of Indiana. Said appeal may be taken by any township 
trustee, board of school trustees or board of school commissioners, 
or by any members of any township advisory board, or by ten (10) 
or more residents and taxpayers of any township, town or city 
where said matter involving the building, changing or condemna- 
tion of such school building occurred; and said appeal may be 
taken to any circuit or superior court of the county where such 
township is located and final appeal therefrom may be had to any 
court of last resort in the State of Indiana. Said appeal shall be 
taken in the name or names of the person or persons taking same, 
or in the name of the ofiicer taking same. Said appeal shall be 
perfected by filing in the office of the clerk of the court to which 
said appeal is taken, within thirty (30) days from the date of final 
decision by the state board of health so ordering such changing or 
condemnation or building of such school building, a complaint or 
petition setting forth the facts complained of. The state board of 
health of Indiana and in the event said appeal is taken by the resi- 
dents and taxpayers, as herein provided, or by a member, or mem- 
bers of the township advisory board, the township trustee, board 
of school commissioners, or board of school trustees shall be 
named as parties defendant to such cause or action. Notice of the 
filing and pendency of such appeal shall be made by serving a 
summons, regularly issued out of said court where same is pend- 
ing, on the. secretary of the state board of health of Indiana, at 
least ten (10) days prior to the hearing of said cause, and there- 
after said appeal shall be tried as other civil causes are tried in 
the State of Indiana. Provided^ That if appeal be taken by priv- 
ate citizens, bond approved by the court shall be given to cover 
costs and reasonable attorney's fees, if such appeal shall not be 
sustained. 



AN ACT concerning the establishment and maintenance of kindergarten 

schools. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 769.] 

Establishment of Free Kindergartens. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 1)1/ the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That the board of school trustees or the board of school 
commissioners of any incorporated town or city may establish and 
maintain, in connection with the other schools of such town or 



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city, a free kindergarten or kindergartens for the instruction of 
cMldren between the ages of four and six years, the expense of 
which shall be paid for in the same manner as other grades and 
departments now established in the common schools of such school 
corporation. 

Tax Levy — Rate. 

Sec. 2. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining any 
such free kindergarten, the x)roper school authorities may, in fix- 
ing the annual levy of taxes for school purposes, include therein 
not to exceed two cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable 
property located within any such school corporation ; but nothing 
herein contained shall prevent such school authorities from pro- 
viding for such free kindergarten from the same revenue and in 
the same manner as other grades and departments in the common 
schools of such school corporations are provided for. 

Use of Funds to Assist Approved Associations. 

Sec. 3. Any such school authorities may, in their discretion, 
apply the fund provided for in section 2, of this act, or such por- 
tion thereof as they deem advisable, to the aid, maintenance and 
support of free kindergarten schools conducted by any association 
incorporated for that purpose: Provided, however, That such 
association in any town or city shall have the approval of the 
board of school trustees or board of school commissioners of such 
town or city. 



AN ACT permitting incorporated towns not exceeding two tliousand in- 
habitants, having a school indebtedness to discontinue school boards, 
and provisions made for transfer of school property to township 
trustees, 

[Acts of 1919, p. 818.] 
Abandonment of Schools in Towns. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assenibly of the State 
of Indiana, That any incorporated town in the state, that has a 
school indebtedness, the population of which town does not exceed 
two thousand as shown by the last preceding general census, may, 
through its town board of trustees, abandon and discontinue its 
management and control of public schools within such incorpor- 
ated town, and abolish the board of school trustees therein, upon 



an agreement with the township trustee of the township in which 
such town is located to take over the school property of such town, 
in terms as in this act provided. 

Township May Purchase Building and Equipment. 

Sec. 2. That whenever any school town in any township desir- 
ing to abandon and discontinue its management and control of 
public schools within such incorporated town is indebted in any 
amount when such abandonment and discontinuance is proposed, 
or whenever the corresponding civil town or whenever both such 
corporations are so indebted for school purposes it shall be lawful 
for the township to purchase the school building, buildings and 
equipment at a valuation which shall be fixed by the county super- 
intendent, auditor and assessor, at an amount not exceeding such 
indebtedness: Provided^ Such indebtedness does not exceed one 
per cent of the combined assessed valuation of the township and 
town, and in case of such purchase such township shall assume 
such indebtedness of such school and civil town and such school 
trustees of said town shall make out and deliver to such township 
trustee a record of such indebtedness, and the page of the record 
where recorded, the date of the bonds or other evidence of indebt- 
edness assumed, the denominations thereof, the rate of interest 
they bear, when the same become due and where payable and 
when and where the interest thereon is payable, and transfer 
such building, buildings and equipment to the township, by mak- 
ing and causing to be made a good and sufficient deed, conveying 
all real estate belonging to such school town to the township in 
which such incorporated town is located, and shall transfer all the 
personal property and fixtures belonging to such school town to 
such township, all of which shall be accepted and held by such 
township trustee for the use and purpose of the school township 
wherein such property is located. 

Under Control of Township Trustee. 

Sec. 3. After the requirements set forth in the preceding sec- 
tion are complied with, the township trustee shall have the full 
and complete control of all the schools within such town, and shall 
conduct the same as provided by law for the other schools of such 
township. 



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AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 
two (2) of an act entitled 'An act requiring the establishment and 
maintenance of township high schools, or joint high schools and 
elementary schools, and matters properly connected therewith,' -ap- 
proved March 7, 1913," law without signature of Governor (1917) 
and to amend section 3 of an act entitled "An act requiring the 
establishment and maintenance of township high schools, or joint 
high schools and elementary schools, and matters properly connected 
therewith," approved March 7, 1913. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 806.] 

( Section 1 of this act was amended by the Acts of 1921, Chapter 
130. See page 63, this Supplement.) 

Location of Building. 

Sec. 2. That section 3 of the second above entitled act be 
amended to read as follows: Section 3. The location of such 
school shall be determined by the township trustee and he shall 
give public notice of the place so determined upon by him by publi- 
cation in one (1) issue each week for three (3) consecutive weeks 
in each of the two (2) leading newspapers representing the two 
(2) political parties casting the largest number of votes for Sec- 
retary of State at the last preceding general election, if such there 
be, and by posting at least one (1) similar notice in some conspic- 
uous place in each school district in said township and if within 
twenty (20) days after the completion of such notice, one (1) or 
more petitions, each signed by twenty (20) or more parents, guar- 
dians, heads of families or persons living in such township and 
having charge of children, who were enumerated for school pur- 
poses in said township, at the last preceding enumeration, for 
another location other than the one determined upon by said town- 
ship trustee, as set out in his said notice, the matter shall be ap- 
pealed to the county superintendent of schools, who shall de- 
termine upon the location of said school and his decision shall be 
final, and said township trustee shall proceed in the execution of 
the provisions of this act. 



AN ACT entitled "An act concerning joint high schools, for cities, towns, 
township or townships in which they are located and providing for 
the purchase, sale, conduct, management and support thereof and 
declaring an emergency. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 686.] 

Joint City and Township Hi^h Schools. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That any incorporated city or town in this state, the 
inhabitants of which do not exceed six thousand (6,000) in num- 
ber as shown by the last preceding United States census, having 
school indebtedness, by and through its school trustees, and the 
township trustee of the township wherein any city is situate, are 
hereby authorized and empowered to contract with each other, on 
behalf of such city and such township, whenever there is no high 
school within such township, except the high school located wholly 
within such incorporated city or town, relative to all matters per- 
taining to the use of such high school by all of the inhabitants 
of such township including the inhabitants of such city or town, 
and relative to all matters pertaining to the sale, or purchase of 
real estate and building or buildings or an interest therein, and 
the joint ownership of the same, and also relative to the joint care, 
custody, repairs, management, maintenance, support, conduct and 
control of such high school located within the corporate limits of 
such city, and in any such contract it may be provided that the 
expense of such joint care, custody, repairs, management, mainte- 
nance, support, conduct and control may be borne pro rata by such 
incorporated city and by such township, in such proportion as the 
number of pupils enrolled in such high schools from such town- 
ship, outside of such city, bears to the number of pupils enrolled 
in such high school from within such city or town: Provided^ 
That nothing in this act shall apply to nor affect joint high schools 
built and operating under the act of 1911, and that no contracts 
for their maintenance based on the assessed valuation of the 
school towns and townships thereunder shall he altered or 
changed by any of the provisions of this act. The township trus- 
tee of such township shall be ex-officio a member of the board of 
trustees of such city in the management and control of such joint 
high school, and his vote as a member of such board in the control 
and management of such joint high school shall be in such propor- 
tion as the number of pupils enrolled in such school from the town- 
ship outside of such city or town bears to the number of pupils 



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enrolled in suck high school from within the corporate limits of 
such city or town : Provided^ That before any such township shall 
buy or sell any real estate, building, buildings, or interest therein 
they shall cause the same to be appraised by three (3) reputable 
citizens of the county appointed by the circuit judge wherein said 
corporations are situated and said township trustee and the board 
of trustees of such city or town are hereby authorized to buy or 
sell as the case may be at such appraised value, and the corpora- 
tions selling shall execute deeds for the interest purchased and 
the corporation buying shall have the right to execute its bonds 
for the purpose of procuring money with which to buy any real 
estate, building, buildings or interest therein, or for the purpose 
of carrying out any of the provisions of this act, said bonds to be 
issued under the laws now in force providing for the. issuing 
of bonds by said corporations. This act shall not effect [affect] 
pending litigation. 



AN ACT providing for tlie creation of joint high scnool and elementary 
school districts and prescribing their powers and duties. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 811.] 

Consolidated School Districts — Petitions. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That the trustees of two (2) or more adjacent town- 
ships, one (1) of which townships is maintaining a high school, 
may establish a new school district, consisting of such adjacent 
townships, and maintain therein a joint high school or a joint 
elementary and high school at the joint expense of the several 
townships, whenever in their judgment it shall appear necessary 
for the better accommodation of the people of the respective town- 
ships. The necessity for the creation of a new consolidated school 
district shall be set forth in a petition of the majority of patrons 
in each township affected by such school making the request and 
a copy of such petition shall be presented to the trustee of each of 
the townships affected. Such trustees shall, at a time to be agreed 
upon by them, not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty 
(30) days from the time of receiving such petition, hold a joint 
meeting for the purpose of considering such petition and determin- 
ing whether such petition shall be granted. In the event that such 
petition shall be granted, the several trustees affected shall enter 
into a contract declaring the respective townships a consolidated 



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school district and shall in such contract set forth also whether 
the consolidating townships shall maintain a joint high school or 
a joint elementary and high school, and in either case the trus- 
tees of the townships comprised in such consolidated school dis- 
trict shall assume charge and supervision of the high school 
already established within such district and shall maintain the 
same in the manner hereinafter provided. 

Trustees — Powers and Duties. 

Sec. 2. In any such contract so entered into between the trus- 
tees of any two (2) or more townships combining to form a con- 
solidated school district, such trustees may agree to the purchase 
of grounds, the erection of a building or buildings, the making 
of repairs or [on] present buildings or additions thereto and by 
equipping the same in accordance with existing laws governing 
school townships in such procedure, including the issuing of the 
notes or bonds of the respective townships consolidating and the 
payment of the same. 

Establishing a Board of Control. 

Sec. 3. A board of control for such school or schools shall be 
established and maintained by such contract, consisting of the 
township trustee of each township included in such district and a 
party to such contract, and such board shall have full control and 
management of such school or schools as may be established or 
maintained by such contract, each member being entitled to an 
equal vote in such control and management : Provided^ That in 
case of a tie vote on the question of management or control of 
such school or schools then and in that event the county superin- 
tendent of the county in which said school is located shall cast the 
deciding vote in such control or management. 

Board of Control — Powers and Duties. 

Sec. 4. The board of control of such consolidated school dis- 
trict shall prepare annually prior to the time for the levy of school 
taxes for any year, an itemized statement of the cost of all ex- 
penditures for improvements and maintenance of such joint high 
school or joint high school and elementary school for the previous 
year, with an itemized estimate of the cost of all proposed im- 
provements, changes, equipment and expenses incidental thereto 
for the ensuing year, including any notes, bonds or interest there- 



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on falling due and issued under any contract made under the pro- 
visions of this act, and such school officials shall meet and de- 
termine the expenditures needed and the total amount required 
for any unpaid obligations, improvements or requirements for the 
ensuing fiscal year of such high school or joint high school and 
elementary school. The total amount shall then be apportioned 
among the several townships affected or benefited thereby in pro- 
portion to the last official assessed valuation in each of said town- 
ships in said high school or joint high school and elementary 
school district. Such officials of each [such] townships shall 
pay out of the school funds of the township the amount appor- 
tioned to their respective townships for the maintenance of such 
high school or joint high school and elementary school and may 
issue notes or sell the bonds of their respective townships for any 
permanent improvements in such high school or joint high school 
and elementary school, or pay the same out of the special school 
fund in their discretion. The township shall assess such sums 
on the entire property within the township. 

Construction of Act. 

Sec. 5. It is the intent of this act that its provisions shall be 
additional to any statutory provisions for the establishment and 
maintenance of high schools or graded schools. This act shall not 
therefore be construed to repeal, in whole or in part, any other 
statute having to do with the establishment, maintenance or sup- 
port of public high schools, except as herein provided. 



AN ACT to provide for the establishment, maintenance and supervi- 
sion of courses in physical education in the elementary, high schools 
and accredited schools of the state. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 682.] 

Physical Education Courses in Schools. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General AssemUy of the State 
of Indiana^ That the State Board of Education may prescribe suit- 
able courses of instruction in physical education, in accordance 
with the provisions of this act, for all pupils enrolled in the pri- 
vate, elementary and high schools of the state, except pupils who 
may be excused from such training on account of physical dis- 
ability, such physical disability to be determined by the health 
supervisor of the school corporation, if there be a health super- 



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visor, or by any reputable physician licensed to practice medicine 
in the state. Such courses of instruction in physical training shall 
be adapted to the ages and capabilities of the pupils in the several 
grades of the elementary and high schools and shall include phy- 
sical exercises, calisthenics, formation drills, games and athletics 
and such other features and details as, in the discretion of the 
State Board of Education, may aid in carrying out the spirit and 
purpose of this act. 

Aims and Purposes. 

Sec. 2. The aims and purposes of the course of physical educa- 
tion established under the provisions of this act shall be as fol- 
lows : 

(1) To develop physical and organic vigor; provide neuro- 
muscular training ; promote bodily and mental poise ; correct and 
prevent postural and bodily defect; and to develop a correct car- 
riage and mental and physical alertness. 

(2) To secure the more advanced forms of co-ordination, 
strength and endurance, and to promote the more desirable 
moral and social qualities, such as an appreciation of the value 
of co-operation under leadership, self -subordination, obedienece to 
authority, higher ideals, courage, self-reliance, disciplined initia- 
tive, self-control and a wholesome and robust interest in recrea- 
tional activities. ^ 

(3) To promote a hygienic school and home life and to secure 
scientific supervision of the sanitation of school buildings, play- 
grounds and athletic fields and the necessary equipment thereof. 

(4) Such course may likewise include suitable instruction in 
personal and community health and safety; the privileges and 
responsibilities of citizenship as they are related to community 
and national welfare the production of the highest type of patri- 
otic citizenship ; and domestic hygiene and first aid. 

Duty of Township Trustee — Required Attendance — Credits. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the township trustee, board of 
school trustees or board of school commissioners of each school 
corporation in which courses in physical education are established 
in accordance with the provisions of this act to provide for, install 
and enforce such courses of physical education as may be pre- 
scribed by the state board of education in accordance with the 
provisions of this act, and to require that such physical education 



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be given in .the schools under their jurisdiction and control. All 
pupils enrolled in the elementary schools of the state, except 
pupils excused therefrom in accordance with the provisions of this 
act, shall be required to attend upon and receive instruction in 
such prescribed courses of physical education during periods 
which shall average not less than fifteen minutes in each school 
day ; and all pupils enrolled in the high schools of the state, except 
pupils excused therefrom in accordance with the provisions of 
this act, shall be required to attend upon and receive instruction 
in such prescribed courses of physical education for at least two 
hours each week that school is in session. Beginning with the 
school year 1919-1920, the successful completion of a course in 
physical education, as prescribed by the State Board of Educa- 
tion, in accordance with the provisions of this act, including the 
minimum number of hours of physical training prescribed, shall 
entitle any pupil who has completed such course to acredit or cred- 
its in promotion or graduation from the school attended by any 
such pupil. The conduct and attainment in physical education of 
the pupils of the several grades in the elementary and high 
schools, taking such course, shall be marked as in other courses or 
subjects, and the standing of the pupil in connection therewith 
shall form a part of the requirements for promotion or graduation. 

Employment of Teachers of Physical Education — Salary. 

Sec. 4. When the number of pupils in any school corporation is 
sufficient, such school corporation, through its properly consti- 
tuted school authorities, may employ one or more competent teach- 
ers of physical education. The school authorities of two or more 
contiguous school corporations may, by written agreement, join in 
the employment of a competent teacher or teachers of physical 
education for the schools of such contiguous school corporations, 
and the salary of such teacher or teachers shall be apportioned on 
the basis of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the 
joining school corporations. It is hereby made the duty of the 
State Board of Education to determine when courses in physical 
education shall be established and where teachers of physical edu- 
cation shall be employed, under the provision of this section, in 
any school corporation or in contiguous school corporations. 

Accredited Schools and Departments. 

Sec. 5. The State Board of Education, in arranging for a regu- 
lar system of normal school instruction throughout the state, and 



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in designating what schools and j)rofessional departments therein 
shall be accredited in the state system of normal school instruc- 
tion, may prescribe and require that no public or private educa- 
tional institution of the state shall be admitted to the "accredited" 
class of the state system of normal school instruction unless and 
until such educational institutions shall prescribe a suitable 
course in physical education, to be approved by the board, and 
shall make the completion of such course a requirement for gradu- 
ation: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not 
apply to any educational institution admitted to the "accredited" 
class prior to the passage of this act, but no such educational insti- 
tution shall be continued in the "accredited" class after the begin- 
ning of the school year 1919-1920 unless such institution shall in 
all respects comply with the provisions of this section. 

Rules and Regulations — Special Assistants. 

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Instruction with the advice of the State Board of Education to 
adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations and to employ 
such special assistants from time to time as may be necessary to 
secure the establishment and maintenance of courses in physical 
education in the elementary and high schools and accredited 
schools of the state in accordance with the provisions of this act. 

Qualifications and Examinations of Teachers. 

Sec. 7. The State Board of Education shall from time to time 
prescribe necessary qualifications and conduct examinations 
of teachers in physical training. 

When Established. 

Sec. 8. All courses of physical education contemplated in this 
act shall be established at the beginning of the school year 1919- 
1920 and shall thereafter be maintained. 

Appropriation. 

Sec. 9. The sum of five hundred dollars or such part thereof 
as may be needed is hereby appropriated annually for the enforce- 
ment of the provisions of this act. 

Application of Act. 

Sec. 10. The provisions of this act shall apply only to cities and 
incorporated towns of five thousand (5,000) or more population, 
according to the last preceding United States census. 



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AN ACT concerning the success grades of certain beginning teachers 
who resigned to enter the naval or military service of the United 
States during the late war. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 591.] 

Success Grade — United States Service Counted. 

Section 1. Be it enacted "by the General Assembly of the State 
of l7idiana, That in all cases when any teacher without previous 
experience began teaching at any time after the United States 
entered the late war and resigned to enter any branch of the naval 
or military service of the United States before having completed 
the necessary six months of teaching as now provided by law to 
secure a success grade, the time so served in the naval or military 
service of the United States shall be counted as teaching experi- 
ence in awarding success grades and the salaries of such teachers 
shall be computed accordingly. 



AN ACT for the reimbursement of school townships whose school prop- 
erty has been or shall be annexed to any city or incorporated town. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 463.] 

Reimbursement of School Townships. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That in all cases where any city or incorporated town 
of this state shall hereafter annex any territory, or where any 
town shall be hereafter incorporated in which territory so annexed 
or incorporated there shall be real estate of any school township 
held by it for school purposes, and such school township shall, at 
the date of annexation, be indebted either for the purchase of said 
real estate or for buildings constructed thereon, it shall be and is 
hereby made the duty of the common school corporation of such 
city or incorporated town to pay ^uch indebtedness, and such city 
or town school corporation is hereby made liable therefor. Until 
such city or town school corporation shall have paid such indebt- 
edness, it shall not be entitled to a deed for such real estate, and 
to the extent such indebtedness shall be paid by such school town- 
ship, such school township shall be entitled to recover from said 
city or town school corporation the amount so paid with interest 
at the rate of six per cent per annum from the date of payment. 
Upon the payment by such city or town school corporation of the 
full amount of such indebtedness, either by reimbursement of said 



township school corporation or by payment direct to said school 
townships creditor, the said city or town school corporation shall 
be entitled to a deed for such real estate as now by law provided. 

Liability of City or Town School Corporations. 

Sec. 2. Whenever any such annexation or incorporation has 
been made prior to the passage of this act, and since February 2S, 
1913, such city or town school corporation shall be liable, as 
above in Section 1 expressed, for any such indebtedness remaining 
unpaid at the date of the passage of this act and for any such in- 
debtedness existing before the passage of this act which has, after 
annexation or incorporation, been paid by such township school 
corporation as fully as such liability would exist had the annexa- 
tion or incorporation been made after the taking effect of this act, 
and such town or city school corporation shall not be entitled to a 
deed for such township school real estate until it shall have paid 
such debt and have reimbursed said township school corporation 
as expressed in Section 1 of this act, and upon such payment and 
reimbursement such town or city school corporation shall be en- 
titled to a deed for such real estate as now by law provided. 



AN ACT to amend section one (1) of an act entitled "An act to amend 
sections one (1), two (2) and three (3) of an act entitled 'An act 
to empower the board of school trustees in cities of the second class 
to issue, negotiate and sell bonds of the school city or corporation to 
procure means to erect school buildings in such school city or corpor- 
ation, or to pay for the cost of buildings already erected therein, or 
any other indebtedness of the school city or corporation. Also to 
emi>ower the said trustees to levy and collect special taxes for the 
payment of such bonds, and to provide a sinking fund or other means 
for the payment of such bonds, and providing for the repeal of all laws 
in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency for the immediate 
taking effect of this act.' Approved March oth, 1907," approved March 
3, 1909. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 424.] 

School Improvement Bonds — Notice — Sale. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the ^taie 
of Indiana^ That section 1 of the above entitled act be and the 
same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 1 . The board 
of trustees of the school corporation in any city of the second class 
in this state is hereby authorized and empowered to issue, nego- 



tiate and sell the negotiable bonds of such school city or corpora- 
tion in such sums and denominations as such board may deem ad- 
visable for school uses and purposes, including the purchase of 
real estate, the repair and erection of buildings, and their equip- 
ment for school purposes, including the cost of lighting, heating 
and sanitation and the payment of any existing indebtedness for 
any of the purposes aforesaid. Such bonds shall be known as 
"school improvement bonds" and payable at such places and at 
such times as such board may determine and as may be stated in 
the bonds and shall bear interest not to exceed five (5) per centum 
per annum, payable annually or semi-annually, for which interest 
coupons may be attached to said bonds, and may be negotiated and 
delivered at any market place at not less than their par value. 
Such bonds may be issued from time to time as the needs of such 
school city or corporation shall require : Provided^ however, That 
the aggregate amount of all such bonds of such school city or cor- 
poration, including all prior issues outstanding at any one time, 
shall not exceed two (2) per centum on the value of the taxable 
property within such city or corporation as ascertained by the last 
assessment for state and county taxes previous to the incurring of 
such indebtedness. No bonds shall be issued until the money 
therefor is paid to the treasurer of such board and interest thereon 
shall begin to accrue at the time of delivery thereof. Preparatory 
to offering such bonds for sale, the board of school trustees shall 
give notice for not less than three (3) weeks, of the date fixed for 
the sale of such bonds, together with a description of such bonds, 
and of such offer, and invite bids therefor. Such notice shall be 
given by advertisements once each week in at least one (1) news- 
paper published in such school city or corporation, the last of 
which publications shall be made at least one (1) week before the 
date fixed for the sale of such bonds, and by such other notice or 
advertisement as the board may make. Said board shall sell such 
bonds to the highest or best bidder, but shall have the right to re- 
ject any and all bids. 



AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to authorize the 
school trustees of the several townships, towns and cities to levy a 
tax for school purposes, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith," 
approved March 9, 1903. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 99.] 

Supplementary Tuition Fund — Tax Levy. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section one of the above entitled act be amended 
to read as follows, to wit : Section 1. The school trustees of the 
several townships, towns and cities shall have the power to levy 
annually a tax of not to exceed seventy-five cents on each hundred 
dollars of taxable property and twenty-five cents on each taxable 
poll, which tax shall be assessed and collected as the taxes of the 
state and county revenues are assessed and collected, and the rev- 
enues arising from such tax levy shall constitute a supplementary 
tuition fund, to extend the terms of school in said townships, 
towns and cities after the tuition fund apportioned to such town- 
ships, towns and cities from the state tuition revenues shall be ex- 
hausted, provided that such school trustees are hereby empowered 
to borrow money, for a period not to exceed one year, in anticipa- 
tion of the above tax levy, but not in excess of such levy, for the 
purpose of paying the salaries of teachers of such schools. 



AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 
1 of an act entitled An act authorizing school townships and the cor- 
responding civil townships to borrow money and issue bonds to pur- 
chase school grounds and erect school houses in certain cases,' law 
without the signature of the governor (1917)," approved March 3, 1919. 

[Acts of the Special Session, 1920, page 55.] 

Bonds of School and Civil Township to Erect School Buildings 
and Purchase Grounds. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That section 1 of the above entitled 
act be amended to read as follows : Section 1. That when any 
township in this state in which any school building or school 
buildings shall have been condemned by the state board of health 
as unsanitary, unsafe or unfit for use, or which shall have been 
destroyed by fire, lightning or windstorm shall desire to erect a 
new school building or a new central school building to accom- 



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modate the pupils of school age resident within such township, 
and pro\dde for their education either in the common or high 
school branches of study ; and when the indebtedness necessarily 
incurred in erecting such school building or school buildings and 
purchasing the necessary grounds will be in excess of the two per 
cent (2%) constitutional debt limit of such school township, the 
trustee and advisory board of such township may proceed, in the 
manner hereafter provided, to borrow the money necessary to erect 
such school building or school buildings and to purchase the nec- 
essary grounds and to issue the bonds of such school township and 
civil township, respectively, in any amount sufficient to defray 
the expense of erecting such school building or school buildings 
and purchasing such school grounds, not exceeding in the aggre- 
gate the two per cent (2) constitutional debt limit of each said 
school tovwQship and said civil township. This shall in no way 
affect pending litigation. Nothing in this act contained shall be 
construed to apply to any school building or school buildings here- 
after condemned by the state board of health as unsanitary, un- 
safe or unfit for use. 



AN ACT to amend sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14 and 16 of an act en- 
titled "An act to provide for the encouragement, maintenance and 
supervision of vocational education in industries, agriculture and 
domestic science," approved February 22, 1913. 

[Acts of 1919, p. 596.] 

Defining Vocational Education. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General AsscmMy of the State 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended 
to read as follows : Section 1. 1. '^Vocational education" shall 
mean any education, the controlling purpose of which is to fit for 
profitable employment. 

2. ''Industrial education'' shall mean that form of vocational 
education which fits for the trades, crafts and wage-earning pur- 
suits, including the occupation of girls and women carried on in 
stores, work-shops and other establishments. 

3. "Agricultural education" shall mean that form of voca- 
tional education which fits for the occupations connected with the 
tillage of the soil, the care of domestic animals, forestry, and other 
wage-earning or productive work on the farm. 



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4. ''Home economics" education shall mean that form of voca- 
tional education which fits for occupations connected with the 
household. 

5. "Industrial, agricultural or home economics school or de- 
partment" shall mean an organization of courses, pupils and 
teachers designed to give either industrial, agricultural or home 
economics as herein defined, under a separate director or head. 

6. "Approved industrial, agricultural or home economics 
school or department" shall mean an organization under a sep- 
arate director or head, of courses, pupils and teachers approved by 
the Stat« Board of Education designed to give either industrial, 
agricultural or home economics education as herein defined. 

7. "Evening class" in an industrial, agricultural or home eco- 
nomics school or department shall mean a class giving such train- 
ing as can be taJ^en by persons already employed during the work- 
ing day, and which in order to be called vocational must in its in- 
struction deal with the subject matter of the day employment, and 
be so carried on as to relate to the day employment ; but evening 
classes in home economics relating to the home shall be open to 
all women over sixteen who are employed in any capacity during 
the day. 

"Part-time classes" in an industrial, agricultural, or home eco- 
nomics school or department, shall mean classes for persons over 
fourteen years of age giving a part of their working time to profit- 
able employment and receiving, in the part-time school or depart- 
ment, instruction complementary to the practical work carried on 
in such employment or instruction in subjects given to enlarge 
civic or vocational intelligence or instruction in trade preparation 
subjects. To give a part of their working time such persons 
must give a part of each day, week, or longer period to such part- 
time class during the period in which it is in session. 

Establishment of Vocational Schools. 

Sec. 2. That section 2 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 2. Any school city, town or township 
may through its board of school trustees or school commissioners 
or township trustee, establish vocational schools or departments 
for industrial, agricultural and home economics education in the 
manner approved by the State Board of Education and may 
maintain the same from the common school funds or from a spe- 
cial tax levy not to exceed 10 cents on each {ij>100 of taxable prop- 



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erty, or partly from the common school funds and partly from 
such tax. 

Part Time and Evening Classes. 

Sec. 3. That section 3 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 3. In order that instruction in the prin- 
ciples and practice of the arts may go on together, vocational 
schools and departments for industrial, agricultural and home 
economics education may offer instruction in day, part-time and 
evening classes. Such instruction shall be of less than college 
grade and be designed to meet the vocational needs of persons 
over 14 years of age who are able to profit by the instruction 
offered. Attendance upon such day or part-time classes shall be 
restricted to persons over 14 years of age ; and upon such evening 
classes to persons over 16 years of age. 

State Board of Education to Co-operate. 

Sec. 4. That section G of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 6. The State Board of Education is 
hereby authorized and directed to investigate and to aid in the 
introduction of industrial, agricultural and home economics edu- 
cation, to aid cities, towns and townships to initiate and superin- 
tend the establishment and maintenance of schools and depart- 
ments for the aforesaid forms of education, to aid in establishing 
and maintaining vocational teacher training classes ; and to sup- 
ervise and approve such schools and departments and classes as 
herein provided. The State Board of Education shall make a 
report annually not later than September 1st to the governor and 
biennially to the General Assemblj^ describing the conditions and 
progress of vocational teacher training, industrial, agricultural 
and home economics education, accounting from reports made 
annually not later than August 15th by the custodian of the state 
and federal vocational education funds for all monies received 
and expended from state and federal vocational education 
funds, and making such recommendations as they may deem ad- 
visable for the proper promotion of the work. 

State Director of Vocational Education — Assistants. 

Sec. 5. That section 8 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 8. The State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, with the advice and approval of the State Board of 



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Education, shall appoint a state director of vocational education 
who shall act under the direction of the State Board of Education 
and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in carrying 
out the provisions of the state and federal vocational education 
acts. The salary and term of office of such director shall be fixed 
by the board and he shall be removable by the board only for 
cause. 

In like manner such assistants to the vocational director may 
be appointed as are required to carry out the provisions of the 
state and federal vocational acts. 

The State Superintendent, with the approval of the State Board 
of Education, is authorized to co-operate with Purdue University 
in the appointment of some person actively connected with the 
agricultural extension work at Purdue as an agent in supervising 
agricultural education, who shall serve in a dual capacity as an 
agent of the State Superintendent and an assistant at Purdue 
University. Such person shall be subject to removal for cause 
by the State Board of Education. 

All expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties by the 
directors, assistants and agents shall be paid by the state from 
funds provided for in this act. 

Approved Vocational Schools or Departments. 

Sec. 7. That section 13 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 13. Vocational schools or departments 
for industrial, agricultural and home economics education shall 
so long as they are approved by the State Board of Education as 
to organization, buildings,' location, equipment, courses of study, 
qualifications of teachers, length of term, methods of instruction, 
conditions of admission, employment of pupils and expenditures 
of money, constitute approved vocational schools or departments. 
School cities and towns and townships maintaining such a^j- 
proved vocational school shall receive reimbursement as provided 
in this act. 

Payments to School Cities, Towns and Townships. 

Sec. 8. That section 14 of the above entitled act be amended to 

read as follows: Section 14. The state, in order to aid in the 

maintenance of approved vocational schools or departments for 

industrial, agricultural and home economics education, shall, as 

provided in this act, pay annually after June 30, 1919, to school 



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cities and towns and townships maintaining such schools and de- 
partments an amount equal to one-half of the sum expended for 
instruction in vocational and technical subjects authorized and 
approved by the State Board of Education. Such cost of instruc- 
tion shall consist of the total amount raised by local taxation and 
expended for the teachers of approved vocational and technical 
subjects. School cities and towns and townships that have paid 
claims for tuition in approved vocational schools shall be reim- 
bursed by the state as provided in this act, to the extent of one- 
half the sums expended by such school cities and towns and town- 
ships in payment of such claims. 

NOTE 1 : Section 6 of the foregoing act was repealed by Chapter 173 of the 
Acts of 1921. See page 40, this Supplement. 

NOTE 2: Section 9 of this act was repealed by Chapter 119 of the Acts of 1921. 
See page 41, this Supplement. 



AN ACT to amend section 6 of an act entitled "An act to amend sec- 
tions 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 18, 14 and 16 of an act entitled 'An act to pro- 
vide for the encouragement, maintenance and supervision of vocational 
education in industries, agriculture and domestic science,' approved 
February 22, 1913," approved March 14, 1919. 

[Acts 1921, Chapter 173.] 

May Compel Attendance. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That section 6 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Sec. 6. That section 11 of the above entitled 
act be amended to read as follows : Sec. 11. In case the board of 
education or township trustees of any city, town, or township has 
established approved vocational schools for the instruction, in 
part-time classes, of youths over fourteen years of age who are en- 
gaged in regular employment, and has formally accepted the pro- 
visions of this section, such board or trustee is authorized to re- 
quire all youths between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years 
who are regularly employed to attend part-time school not less 
than four nor more than eight hours per week between the hours 
of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. during the school term, and, after September 
1, 1921, such board or trustee is authorized to require all youths 
between the ages of fourteen and seventeen years or between the 
ages of fourteen and eighteen years who are regularly employed to 
attend part-time school not less than four nor more than eight 
hours per week between the hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. during the 
school term. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing amends Section 6, Acts of 1919, page 596. 



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AN ACT to aineiul section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 
sixteen (16) of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the encourage- 
ment, maintenance and supervision of vocational education in indus- 
tries, agriculture and domestic science,' approved February 22, 1913, 
repealing all laws in conflict herewith and declaring an emergency," 
approved March 5, 1917. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 119.] 

Vocational Education — State Tax Levy — Use of Fund. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General AssemMy of the State 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 1. That section sixteen (16) of the 
above entitled act be amended to read as follows : Section 16. To 
provide a state fund to carry out the provisions of this act, there 
shall be levied annually as a part of the state common school levy 
an additional levy of one-half cent (%c) on each one hundred dol- 
lars (|100) of taxable property in the state, which shall consti- 
tute a fund for the purpose of this act. Any part of the fund now 
remaining or remaining at the close of any fiscal year shall be 
placed by a committee consisting of the state superintendent of 
public instruction, the state vocational director, the chairman of 
the vocational committee of the state board of education and the 
treasurer of state in a fund for vocational education, which shall 
be properly invested by this committee and used together with the 
proceeds herefrom to aid in carrying out the provisions of this act. 
Provided, That not more than forty per cent (40%) of the funds 
raised by this levy shall be used for printing, supplies, salaries and 
expenses of vocational directors, assistants, clerks, stenographers, 
or other workers with headquarters at Indianapolis, salaries and 
expenses of vocational directors or supervisors in city, town, or 
township school corporations, salaries and expenses of vocational 
teachers of industrial education, training teachers of industrial 
education, and for expenses on account of attending conferences 
and conventions outside of the state. 

The balance of the fund raised by this levy is for the purpose of 
providing salaries of county agents and vocational teachers of 
Agriculture and Home Economics and for the training of teachers 
of Agriculture and Home Economics. 

Sec. 2. That section 9 of an act entitled ^^An act to amend sec- 
tions 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14 and 16 of an act entitled 'An act to pro- 
vide for the encouragement, maintenance and supervision of voca- 
tional education in industries, agriculture and domestic science. 



approved February 22, 1913," approved March 14, 1919, the same 
being invalid, is hereby repealed. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Section 400 of the School Laws of 1917, also Sec- 
tion 9, Acts 1919, page 596. 



AN ACT to regulate the sale of school text books. 
[Acts of 1921, Chapter 68.] 

Text Book Dealers. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That the county superintendent of schools in each 
county of the state shall appoint one ( 1 ) or more dealers or agents 
within the county who shall have charge of the sale and distribu- 
tion of elementary and high school text books contracted for by 
the state board of school book commissioners, county board of edu- 
cation, board of school trustees, or boards of school commission- 
ers ; and it shall be the duty of each dealer or agent so appointed 
to carry at all times a sufficient supply of text books to accommo- 
date the needs of the schools ; and each dealer or agent shall furn- 
ish each publisher, holding a text book contract in the State of In- 
diana, satisfactory evidence of his financial responsibility or furn- 
ish a surety bond covering the estimated amount of sales to be 
made by him in any year ; Provided^ f wither, That said dealer or 
agent shall pay cash to the contractor or publisher for all books 
received within sixty (60) days after the shipment of such books. 
It shall be the duty of said dealer or agent annually in June to 
ascertain the probable number of books that will be needed to sup- 
ply to the schools for the ensuing year and place his orders for 
said books on or before the first day of July in each year. 

Selling Price of Books. 

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any retail dealer in text books, 
or any firm, corporation, or person to sell any school text book 
adopted by the state board of school book commissioners, or by 
any county board of education, board of school trustees, or board 
of school commissioners, at a price exceeding the net wholesale or 
net contract price, plus twenty per cent (20%) of the net whole- 
sale or net contract price of such book ; and such dealer or agent 
shall pay all transportation charges. 



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School Trustees May Handle Books. 

Sec. 3. The board of school book commissioners, boards of 
school trustees, townsliip trustees, county boards of education, or 
boards of school commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase 
text books from publishers at the net wholesale or net contract 
price, and sell said books to the pupils at the net wholesale or con- 
tract price, plus the cost of handling the books which shall not 
exceed twenty per cent (20%) of the net wholesale or net contract 
price. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 4. An act entitled ^'An act to regulate the adoption and 
sale of text books and to provide optional high school texts," ap- 
proved March 8, 1917, be and the same is hereby repealed. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Sections 602 to 60S inclusive of the School Laws 
of 1917. 



AN ACT to provide funds for the benefit of Indiana University, Purdue 
University and tlie Indiana State Normal Scliool and declaring an 
emergency and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict there- 
with. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 7.] 

Educational Institution Fund — Levy. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That there shall be levied and collected upon all tax- 
able property in the State of Indiana, for the year one thousand 
nine hundred and twenty-one (1921), and for each year thereafter 
for the use and benefit of Indiana University, Purdue University 
and the Indiana State Normal School, to be apportioned and dis- 
tributed as hereinafter in this act provided, a tax of five (5) cents 
on every one hundred dollars (|100) of taxable property in Indi- 
ana, to be levied, collected and paid into the treasury of the State 
of Indiana in like manner as other state taxes are levied, collected 
and paid. And, so much of the proceeds of said levy as may be in 
the state treasury on the first day of July and on the first day of 
Januar}^ of each year shall be immediately thereafter paid over to 
the boards of trustees of the respective institutions for which the 
tax was levied, and shall be distributed and apportioned among 
them severally upon the basis as follows, namely: To the said 
trustees of Indiana University upon the basis of two-fifths (2/5) 



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of the total proceeds of such taxes ; to the trustees of Purdue Uni- 
versity upon the basis of two-fifths (2/5) of the total proceeds of 
such tax^s; to the trustees of the Indiana State Normal School 
upon the basis of one-fifth (1/5) of the total proceeds of such 
taxes. And the auditor of the State of Indiana shall draw proper 
warrants therefor. On or before the tenth day of January and of 
July of each year, the trustees of Indiana University, Purdue Uni- 
versity and the Indiana State Normal School shall file or cause 
to be filed with the auditor of state a sworn and itemized state- 
ment of their respective receipts from all sources including all 
tuition fees and other revenues derived from students, contingent 
fees, interest from permanent endowment fund, the proceeds of 
the taxes provided in this act and all other receipts of every kind, 
character and description together with a full, detailed, itemized 
and sworn statement of their respective expenditures for all pur- 
poses, including maintenance and permanent improvements, the 
amount paid to each member of the faculty, trustees and all other 
officers of the institution, and file with the report a copy of the 
receipts for each separate item of such expenditures for the six 
months period immediately preceding January first and July first 
of each year; it being the intention of this act that the reports 
hereinbefore provided for shall set out in full and in detail all ex- 
penditures of every kind, character and description ; and from and 
after the taking effect of this act, it shall be unlawful for the 
auditor of state to issue any warrants to Indiana University, 
Purdue University or the Indiana State Normal School until they , 
shall have filed their respective reports as required by this act. 

Endowment or Permanent Fund Not Affected. 

Sec. 2. Nothing in this act shall affect in any way any endow- 
ment or permanent fund or funds that may belong to or may have 
been appropriated for either Indiana University or Purdue Uni- 
versity or the right of any of said institutions mentioned in this 
act to any taxes heretofore levied for their benefit but all such 
taxes heretofore levied are hereby saved to said institutions. And, 
Provided^ further^ That no part of the school revenue of the state 
shall be deducted or set apart for the State Normal School. 

Unexpended Balance. 

Sec. 3. In case there shall be any unexpended balance at the 
end of any fiscal year, of the funds provided for by this act, appor- 



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tioned to any one of said educational institutions, the same shall 
not revert to the state treasury but shall remain and belong to 
said institution to which it was apportioned, to be expended in the 
future for maintenance of said institutions or for improvement of 
the property of such institutions or for the construction of new 
buildings, as the board of trustees of said institutions may order. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provis- 
ions of this act are hereby repealed. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 5. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall take effect and be in force from 
and after its passage. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Sections 368 and 369, School Laws of 1917. 



AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 
one (1) of an act entitled 'An act to amend section 2 of an act entitled 
"An act regulating the transfer of children from one school corporation 
to another and fixing the^price of tuition, repealing all laws and parts 
of laws in conflict therewith and declaring an emergency." approved 
March 11, 1901, and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict 
herewith,' (approved March 6, 1909,)" approved February 22, 1915. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 84.] 

Schools — Transfer of Pupils — Tuition — Per Capita Cost. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of tlie State 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That section 2 of the above entitled 
act be amended to read as follows : Section 2. If such transfer is 
granted, the school trustee or board of school trustees, or com- 
missioners of the school corporation in which such child resides 
shall pay out of the special school fund, or out of the tuition fund 
at his discretion, to the school trustees, or board of school trustees 
or commissioners of the school corporation to which such child is 
transferred, as tuition for such child, an amount equal to the 
annual per capita cost of education in the corporation to which 
. said child is transferred ; or such a part of it as the term of en- 
rollment of said child in the schools of the creditor corporation 



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may require : Provided, That the per capita cost in high schools 
shall be calculated upon the basis of expenditures for high school 
purposes, and the per capita cost in grade schools shall be calcu- 
lated upon the basis of expenditures for the schools below the high 
schools. 

The annual per capita cost of education in the corporation to 
which such child is transferred shall be calculated upon the basis 
of the expenditures therein for the following items : Salaries of 
superintendent, supervisors, instructors, and janitors, the cost of 
fuel, light, printing and laboratory supplies, to all of which ex- 
penditures shall be added an amount equal to eight per cent (8%) 
on the fair valuatioii of the school plant, including the school 
grounds, the school house or school houses and any and all other 
physical property belonging to and constituting a part of such 
school plant : Provided, That the amount so added shall not ex- 
ceed fifteen dollars (|15) per pupil. It shall be the duty of the 
county assessor of each county in this state to evaluate and ap- 
praise each such school plant within his jurisdiction, annually, at 
any time between the first day of March and the fifteenth day of 
May. In making such evaluation or appraisement, such assessor 
shall comply in all respects with the provisions of the laws of this 
state concerning the assessment of property for purposes of taxa- 
tion, and an appeal may be taken from the determination of the 
county assessor to the county board of review and the decision of 
such board of review, or, in the event that no appeal be taken, the 
decision of the county assessor, shall be final. 

NOTE 1 : TTie foregoing repeals Section 273, School Laws, 1917. 



AN ACT concerning boards of school trustees in cities having a popu- 
lation of more than fifty-eight thousand inhabitants and less than 
seventy thousand inhabitants, according to the last preceding United 
States census, and declaring an emergency. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 22.] 

Schools— Cities With Population of 58,000 to 70,000. 

Section 1. Be it enacted ty the General AssemMy of the State 
of Indiana, That the government of the common schools in cities 
having a population of more than fifty-eight thousand inhabitants 
and less than seventy thousand inhabitants, according to the last, 
preceding United States census, shall be vested in a board of 
school trustees, which shall consist of five members, elected in 
the manner hereinafter provided. 



School Board— Qualifications— Salary. 

Sec. 2. The members of such board of school trustees shall be 
at least twenty-five years of age, residents of the city, and shall 
have been such residents of the city for at least three years imme- 
diately preceding their election. They shall be ineligible to any 
elective or appointive office under such board of school trustees 
and under the government of such city while holding membership 
*on said board. They shall not be interested in any contract with, 
or claim against the school city in which they are elected, either 
directly or indirectly : Provided^ That this act shall not be con- 
strued to prevent anyone, otherwise eligible, who is connected as 
officer or stockholder in financial institutions holding school fund 
deposits under the state depository law from holding such office 
as school trustee. If at any time after the election of any member 
of said board, he shall become interested in any such contract with, 
or claim against said school city, he shall thereupon be disqual- 
ified to continue as a member of said board, and a vacancy shall 
thereby be created. Every member of said board shall, before as- 
suming the duties of his office, take an oath before some one qual- 
ified to administer oaths that he possesses all the qualifications re- 
quired by this act, that he will honestly and faithfully discharge 
the duties of his office, that he will not, while serving as a member 
of such board, become interested directly or indirectly, in any 
contract with, or claim against said school city, and that he will 
not be influenced during his term of office, by any consideration of 
politics or religion, or anything except that of merit and fitness in 
the appointment of officers and the engagement of employes. Each 
member of such board of school trustees shall receive as compen- 
sation for his services herein the sum of five hundred dollars 
(|500) per annum. 

Manner of Selecting School Board. 

Sec. 3. The said board of school trustees shall be elected on a 
general ticket for a term of four years by the voters of any such 
city qualified to vote at its city elections. The members of such 
board shall be elected at the regular city election of such civil city, 
and shall be taken from the city at large without reference to dis- 
tricts, and such election shall be held under the pro^dsions of the 
general laws governing such city elections, so far as they are not 
inconsistent with the provisions of this act. Not later than thirty 
days before any election for members of the board of school trus- 



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tees provided for in this act, legal voters of such city may present 
names of candidates for election as members of said board of 
school trustees to a board of canvassers, consisting of the mayor, 
the clerk and the comptroller of said city in the manner following : 
Each candidate shall be proposed in writing by not fewer than 
two hundred legal voters of such city. No more than five candi- 
dates may be named in any one petition and no legal voter may 
sign for more than five candidates on petition or petitions for any 
one election. Upon the presentation of such petition to said board 
of canvassers, the said board of canvassers shall publish for five 
days the names proposed, in at least two of the daily newspapers 
printed and published in said city, and shall certify at the time 
required by law such nominations to the regular board of election 
commissioners for said city election, who shall prepare ballots 
printed on plain paper which shall contain the names of all such 
candidates, arranged in order to be determined according to lot 
by said board of canvassers. There shall be nothing on said bal- 
lot, except as otherwise provided herein, and except the names of 
the candidates and the offices to be filled, together with the square 
in front of each name and a statement at the head of the ticket of 
the number of trustees for whom the elector may vote. Such bal- 
lot shall be voted at said regular city election and deposited in a 
separate ballot box provided for the purpose. The name of any 
candidate shall not be thus published and placed on the official 
ballot by the said board of canvassers if it shall appear that he is 
ineligible for membership on the said board of school trustees 
under the provisions of section two (2) of this act. Each elector 
may vote for five candidates by making a cross in the square oppo- 
site the name of each candidate for whom he votes. The five 
candidates who have the highest number of votes shall be declared 
elected. 

Term of Office. . 

Sec. 4. At the next general city election after the taking eifect 
of this act, five members of the board of school trustees shall be 
elected to serve as herein provided, and each of said trustees shall 
hold office for a term of four years, and until his successor is 
elected and qualified. 

Trustees Now in Office. 

Sec. 5. School trustees holding office in such cities at the time 
of taking effect of this act, shall continue to hold office therein 



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respectively as such school trustees in such cities during the terms 
of office for which they were so elected : Providcdy however, That 
if the term of office of any of said school trustees so holding office 
at the time of taking effect of this act, shall, under the provisions 
of the act under and by virtue of which they were elected, expire 
on any day other than the day immediately preceding the first 
Monday in January of any year, then and in that case, the term 
of office of such trustee shall be, and the same is hereby extended 
to the first Monday in January following the day upon which the 
term of office of such trustee would otherwise have expired. 

When Duties Are Assumed. 

Sec. 6. The five trustees elected as provided by section four (4) 
of this act, shall take office as vacancies may occur, by reason of 
the expiration of the terms of office of the trustees now holding 
office, as provided in section five (5) herein. At each succeeding 
general city election, there shall be elected five school trustees, as 
herein provided, who shall respectively succeed the members serv- 
ing as school trustees of any such city, upon the expiration of their 
respective terms of office. The five trustees elected at any such 
general city election, as provided in this act, shall take office 
in the order of the highest number of votes received by such trus- 
tees at said election : Provided, however. That if any of the trus- 
tees so elected at any general city election shall, at the time of his 
or her election, be holding the office of school trustee in such city, 
by virtue of any previous election or appointment, and the term 
of office of said trustee shall not expire until a time later than 
the time when said trustee should take office under his or her last 
election, said trustee shall not take said office in the order herein- 
above provided, but shall succeed him or herself, and shall take 
office by virtue of such election at the expiration of his or her pre- 
ceding term, and the term or terms of the remaining trustee or 
trustees elect shall be advanced accordingly. 

Vacancies. 

Sec. 7. If a vacancy shall occur in the office of school trustee 
in any such city by reason of death, resignation, disqualification 
or otherwise, except expiration of term, the remaining trustees 
shall, at their next regular meeting, or at a special meeting called 
for that purpose, elect a successor to fill such vacancy for the re- 
mainder of the unexpired term. 



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Repeal. 

Sec. 8. That an act entitled "An act concerning boards of 
school trustees in cities having a population of more than fifty-five 
thousand inhabitants and less than sixty-three thousand inhabi- 
tants, according to the last preceding United States census, and 
declaring an emergency," approved March 4, 1911, also an act en- 
titled "An act providing for the government of school cities in 
cities having a population of more than sixty-three thousand (63,- 
000) inhabitants and less than sixty-nine thousand (69,000) in- 
habitants, according to the last preceding United States census, 
making the general school laws of the state applicable thereto, 
providing for the election of school trustees, prescribing their 
duties and declaring an emergency," approved February 19, 1913, 
be, and the same are hereby repealed. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 9. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and 
after its passage. 



AN ACT to amend sections 1, 2 and 3 of an act entitled "An act to amend 
sections 1, 2 and 3 of an act entitled 'An act for the advancement of 
agriculture, providing for research and investigation in connection 
with the production of farm products and stock raising and making 
an annual appropriation therefor,' approved March 3, 1905, and declar- 
ing an emergency," approved March 8, 1909, and providing for the 
annual 16vy of a tax for the use of the agricultural experiment station. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 17.] 

Purdue University — Agricultural Experiment Station — Tax For. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 1. There shall be levied and collected 
upon the taxable property of the State of Indiana for the year 
1921, and for each year thereafter, for the use of the agricultural 
experiment station of Purdue University, a tax of two-fifths cent 
on each one hundred dollars (flOO) taxable property in Indiana, 
to be levied, collected and paid into the treasury of the State of 
Indiana, in like manner as other state taxes are levied, collected 
and paid, and the same shall be paid in equal quarterly install- 
ments, the first of each quarter, to the treasurer of Purdue Uni- 



versity, the same to be expended under the direction of the direc- 
tor of the agricultural experiment station, in providing the neces- 
sary equipment and paying the expenses of conducting investiga- 
tions or making experiments, and otherwise acquiring information 
and disseminating said information by means of publications, 
lectures and otherwise, bearing on the production, manufacture, 
preparation, use; distribution and marketing of agricultural prod- 
ucts, and on the development and improvement of agriculture and 
country life: Provided, That any portion of the fund derived 
from the levy herein provided for, which shall be unexpended at 
the expiration of any fiscal year, shall not lapse or be covered into 
the state treasury, but such unexpended portion, together with 
accrued interest, shall be available during succeeding fiscal years 
for the carrying out of the purposes of this act. 

Appropriation. 

Sec. 2. That section 2 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 2. For the purpose of meeting necessary 
expenditures in carrying on the work outlined in section 1 of this 
act there is hereby appropriated to the agricultural experiment 
station of Purdue University out of any money in the treasury of 
the State of Indiana, belonging to the general fund and not other- 
wise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thou- 
sand dollars (|175,000) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1921, together with the further sum of one hundred and seventy- 
five thousand dollars (|175,000) for each fiscal year thereafter, 
until the funds provided for in section 1 of this act shall become 
available. Said sums so appropriated to be payable quarterly 
upon the first of each quarter to the treasurer of Purdue Univers- 
ity. 

Work of Experiment Station — How Determined. 

Sec. 3. That section 3 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 3. The work outlined in this act shall be 
carried out by the agricultural experiment station of Purdue uni- 
versity along lines to be agreed upon by the director of the said 
agricultural experiment station of Purdue University, and an ad- 
visory committee of six persons, one person to be appointed by 
each of the following organizations of the State of Indiana : The 
Indiana Federation of Farmers Association, the State Corn Grow- 
ers' Association, the State Dairy Association, the State Livestock 



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Breeders' Association, the State Horticultural Society, and the 
State Poultry Association. 

Report of Receipts and Disbursements. 

Sec. 3%. The Director of the Agricultural Experimental Sta- 
tion shall cause to be prepared and printed annually, not less 
than five hundred (500) copies of the detailed statement of the re- 
ceipts and expenditures of the funds received under the provisions 
of this act showing the balance remaining at the end of the fiscal 
year and deposit two hundred fifty (250) copies thereof, with the 
Auditor of State for the use of the members of the General As- 
sembly — the remaining copies to be for the use of the general pub- 
lic — reference being had to the printed bill. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 4. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in effect from and after its 
passage. 



AN ACT providing for the levy of a tax to support the common schools of 
the state, providing for apportionment and distribution of the money 
so raised, repealing all laws in conflict therewith, and providing a 
penalty. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 201.] 

State Tuition Tax Rate. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General AssemMy of the State 
of Indiana, That there shall be in the year 1921, and annually 
thereafter, assessed and collected as state and county revenues are 
collected, seven (7) cents on each one hundred dollars (|100) 
worth of taxable property, real and personal, in this state, and in 
addition thereto a poll tax of fifty cents (50c) upon each taxable 
poll in the state, which money when collected shall be paid into 
the state treasury for a common school fund, and shall be appor- 
tioned to the several counties in the manner provided in this act. 

Apportionment of Funds. 

Sec. 2. That the state superintendent of public instruction 
shall, on the days fixed by law for his apportionment of the school 
revenue in each year, add to the sum total of said revenue in read- 
iness in each county for apportionment, any amount in the state 



treasury ready for apportionment, together with seventy per cent. 
(70%) of the sum collected by virtue of the levy provided for in 
section one (1) of this act subject to whatever deductions are pro- 
vided for in the Indiana state teachers' retirement law of 1915 
and such amendments as may be made thereto, and any other 
deduction provided for by law; and after said addition the super- 
intendent shall apportion the whole of said sum to the several 
counties of this state, provided, that the money so apportioned 
shall be used exclusively^ for teachers' salaries. 

Relief Fund. 

Sec. 3. A sum equal to thirty per cent. (30%) of the amount 
collected under the le^^^ provided for in section one ( 1 ) of this act 
shall be a relief fund to be distributed as hereinafter provided. 

Distribution of Relief Fund — How Used. 

Sec. 4. Whenever any trustee of a township or board of trus- 
tees of any school town or school city shall ascertain that there is 
not a sufficient amount of revenue in his or their hands to enable 
him or them to maintain the public elementary schools therein for 
a term not to exceed eight (8) months, in such current school year, 
or the public commissioned or certified high school for the mini- 
mum term required of such commissioned or certified high school, 
he or they, as the case may be, shall certify in writing under oath 
such fact to the county superintendent of his or their county, stat- 
ing therein the rate of the levy for local tuition and special school 
fund for current operating expenses on each one hundred dollars 
(|100) and the taxes on each taxable poll made for the supple- 
mentary tuition tax by such township or school town in the year 
immediately previous to the school year in which such deficiency 
occurs, or will occur; also, stating the full amount received from 
the levies made in the local tuition fund and in the special school 
fund for operating purposes, together with the state apportion- 
ment of common and congressional school fund and interest, sur- 
plus dog fund, transfers, interest and miscellaneous receipts in the 
tuition and special school funds; also, the names and number of 
teachers employed with the minimum daily and yearly wage of 
grade teachers as fixed by law and of high school teachers as de- 
termined by the state superintendent, the number of days each 
will teach, together with the amount expended and to be expended 
during the current school year for current operating expenses. 



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including transportation, transfers, fuel, janitor service, institute 
fees, supplies, reference books, and an estimate of the amount that 
will be necessary over and above the tuition and special school 
revenue then on hand for these purposes to complete such a term 
in all the public elementary schools in such school corporation, or 
the public commissioned or certified high school for a minimum 
term prescribed for holding a commission or certificate from the 
state board of education, or both. And provided that where cor- 
porations operate a joint school or schools the proportionate part 
of the expense of each corporation shall be included in the state- 
ment filed for such corporation. And, provided further^ that no 
item of expense shall be included in the above named statement 
unless it shall have been submitted to the county board of educa- 
tion and ajpproved by them. Said certificate shall be executed in 
duplicate. Said county superintendent shall immediately exam- 
ine such certificate and if he shall find the facts stated therein to 
be true and shall further find that the school corporation has lev- 
ied a supplementary tuition and special school tax for the pur- 
poses prescribed in this act in such an amount that the total of 
both such levies shall be not less than one hundred cents on each 
one hundred dollars of taxable property in said school corporation 
for the year in which such deficiency shall occur, he shall forward 
one of such certificates to the state superintendent of public in- 
struction, together with the results of his examination, and with 
the name and postoffice address of such township trustee or treas- 
urer of school corporation. 

Requirements For Obtaining Aid. 

Sec. 5. Upon receipt of such statement from the county super- 
intendent the said state superintendent of public instruction shall 
submit such statement to the state board of accounts for their in- 
vestigation and upon receiving the approval of the state board of 
accounts, said state superintendent shall issue an order on the 
auditor of state in favor of such school corporation, if there be 
funds in the state treasury available for that purpose, for the 
amount necessary to bring the school term of said township or 
school corporation up to a term not to exceed eight (8) months or 
the high school up to the term prescribed for holding a commission 
or certificate, specifying the name of the trustee of such township 
or the treasurer of said town, and his postoffice address. And the 
auditor of state shall at once draw a warrant on the treasurer of 



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state payable out of the fund provided for in section 3 of this act 
in favor of said township, town or city, payable to the trustee of 
such township or treasurer of such school town or city, and mail 
the same to him. Provided^ no such township trustee or treasurer 
of such school town or city shall be entitled to draw or receive the 
funds provided in this act unless said township trustee or board of 
school trustees has levied local tuition tax and special school tax 
for current operating expenses in such amount that the total of 
both levies shall be not less than one hundred cents (|l.OO) on 
each one hundred dollars (|100) of taxable property and twenty- 
five cents (25c) on each taxable poll in such township or school 
town or city, and provided, that said school trustee or treasurer of 
school corporation shall be entitled to draw^ or receive the funds 
provided in this act in the event only that there is only one high 
school maintained by said township or school corporation and 
that said high school meets all requirements prescribed for hold- 
ing a commission or certificate or for having its work fully accred- 
ited in commissioned high schools as determined by the state 
board of education. Provided, further , That if, in the opinion of 
the state superintendent of public instruction the conditions shall 
warrant, not to exceed two high schools may be maintained by any 
such township or school corporation and be entitled to state aid 
therefor as now provided by law. Provided, fiurther, That the 
state board of education shall investigate and if, in the opinion of 
the state board of education, the condition shall warrant that 
any town or city should consolidate its school corporation with 
the township as provided by law, then such town or city shall not 
be entitled to the state aid herein provided until such consolida- 
tion has been made. 

Use of Relief Fund. 

Sec. 6. Said township trustee or school board of school trustees 
shall use the amount so received from the state either for the pay- 
ment of the salaries of elementary school teachers or high school 
teachers employed in his tow^nship or their town or city to enable 
him or them to maintain schools therein for the required term or 
for current operating costs as hereinbefore provided in section 4 
of this act, or both, and shall use it for no other purpose. 

Additional Tax Levies. 

Sec. 7. IS^othingin this act shall be so construed as to prohibit 



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any school corporation from making any additional levies in any 
fund for providing permanent improvements, longer terms, or sup- 
plementary educational facilities. 

Officials to Make Reports. 

Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of county auditors, county treasur- 
ers, trustees, school superintendents, principals, teachers and 
other school executives to provide such data as the state superin- 
tendent of public instruction may require in carrying out the pro- 
visions of this act. 

Penalty. 

Sec. 9. Any person or persons who shall directly or indirectly 
make or encourage to be made any false record or records in con- 
nection with the carrying into effect of this act shall be guilty of 
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any 
sum not less than fifty dollars (|50) nor more than five hundred 
dollars (|500) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period 
of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months or 
both. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 10. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Section 361, School Laws 1917 ; also Sections 1-5 
inclusive, Acts of 1919, page 839 ; also Section 1, page 35, Acts of 1920, 
Special Session. 

NOTE 2 : The Act of 1919, which is hereby repealed, repealed Sections 414, 415, 
416. 418 of the School Laws of 1917. 



AN ACT providing for the government of school cities in cities having 
a population of more than 86,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 
inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States census, 
making the general school laws of the state applicable thereto, pro- 
viding for the election of school trustees, prescribing their duties 
and providing for the temporary borrowing and transfer of certain 
school funds. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 49.] 

School Trustees in Cities with Population of 86,000 to 100,000. 

Section 1. Be it enacted Ijy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That the government of the common schools in cities 



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having a population of more than eighty-six thousand (8G,000) 
inhabitants and less than one hundred thousan(J (100,000) inhab- 
itants, according to the last preceding United States census, 
shall be vested in a board of school trustees, which shall consist of 
seven members, who shall be appointed by the mayor as herein- 
after provided, and not more than four of them shall be adherents 
of the same political party. 

School City. 

Sec. 2. Such cities are hereby declared to be and are made 
school corporations for school purposes, separate and distinct 
from the civil corporations of the same cities, and shall be known 
and designated as the school city of (naming the city) ; and the 
several boards of school trustees of such cities shall represent and 
be vested with all the authority and powers of school cities, and 
with the management and control of the common schools thereof. 

General School Laws Applicable. 

Sec. 3. The general school laws of this state and all laws and 
parts of laws, applicable to the general system of common schools 
in cities, and not inconsistent therewith, shall be in full force in 
such cities ; and such boards of school trustees shall also have and 
exercise all the powers heretofore and hereafter conferred upon 
the school trustees of the same or other cities of the state. 

Members of School Board— Qualifications. 

Sec. 4. The members of such board of school trustees shall be 
at least twenty-five years of age, residents of the city, and shall 
have been such residents of the city for at least three years imme- 
diately preceding their election. They shall be ineligible to any 
elective or appointive office under such board of school trustees 
and under the government of such city while holding membership 
on said board. They shall not be interested in any contract with, 
or claim against the school city in which they are elected, either 
directly or indirectly : Provided, That this act shall not be con- 
strued to prevent any person, otherwise eligible, who is connected 
as officer or stockholder, with any financial institutions holding 
school fund deposits under the state depository law from holding 
such office as school trustee. If at any time after the election of 
any member of said board, he shall become interested in any such 
contract with, or claim against said school city, he shall thereupon 



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be disqualified to continue as a member of said board, and a va- 
cancy shall thereby be created. Every member of said board 
shall, before assuming the duties of his office, take an oath before 
some one qualified to administer oaths that he possesses all the 
qualifications required by this act, that he will honestly and faith- 
fully discharge the duties of his office, that he will not, while serv- 
ing as a member of such board, become interested directly or in- 
directly, in any contract with, or claim against, said school city, 
and that he will not be influenced during his term of office, by any 
consideration of politics or religion, or anything except that of 
merit and fitness in the appointment of officers and the engage- 
ment of employes. Each member of such board of school trustees 
shall serve without compensation. 

Appointment of School Trustees — Organization of Board. 

Sec. 5. The members of such board of school trustees shall be 
appointed by the mayor as follows : On or before the fifteenth day 
of July, 1921, the mayor of such city shall appoint one school 
trustee who shall hold office for a term of one year from the first 
day of the next succeeding August ; two school trustees who shall 
hold office for a term of two years from the first day of the next 
succeeding August ; two school trustees who shall hold office for a 
term of three years from the first day of the next succeeding Au- 
gust; and two school trustees who shall hold office for a term of 
four years from the first day of the next succeeding August. There- 
after all appointments shall be made for a term of four years. On 
or before the fifteenth day of eJuly, 1922, and annually thereafter, 
the mayor shall appoint a school trustee or school trustees to suc- 
ceed the school trustee or school trustees whose terms are about to 
expire, and who shall serve for a term of four years, from the first 
day of the next succeeding August. Such trustees so appointed 
shall meet within five days after the first day of August, 1921, and 
annually thereafter, and organize by electing one of their number 
president, one secretary, and one treasurer. The treasurer, be- 
fore entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to 
the acceptance of the county auditor, in the sum of fifty thousand 
dollars (|50,000), conditioned as an ordinary official bond, with 
a reliable surety company or at least two sufficient freehold sure- 
ties, who shall not be members of such board, as surety or sureties 
on such bond. The president and secretary shall each give bond, 
with like surety or sureties, to be approved by the county auditor. 



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in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) : Provided, 
That such boards of school trustees may purchase said bonds from 
some reliable surety company, and pay for them out of the special 
school revenue of their respective cities. In the event that any 
vacancy shall occur in the office of any school trustee such va- 
cancy shall be filled by the mayor; but any such appointment to 
fill a vacancy shall be made for the unexpired term only. The 
terms of office of the present incumbents of the respective offices 
of school trustee in any city coming under the provisions of this 
act shall expire as soon as their respective successors shall have 
been appointed and qualified as hereinbefore provided in this act. 

Temporary Loans. 

Sec. G. The board of school trustees of any school city contem- 
plated in this act may, in cases of emergency, and in the manner 
hereinafter provided in this act, make temporary loans from the 
building fund of such school city for the aid and use of the special 
school fund and the tuition fund, or either of them ; or from the 
special school fund for the aid and use of the building fund and 
the tuition fund, or either of them; or from the tuition fund for 
the aid and use of the building fund and the special school fund, 
or either of them. No such temporary loan shall be made from 
any of such funds unless the portion of the funds so loaned will 
not, in the due course of the business of such school city, be needed 
prior to the time when it can be repaid, for the purpose for which 
it was originally raised. No such temporary loan shall be made 
for the aid and use of any such fund unless such fund is depleted 
or is nearing depletion. No loan so made shall be used for any 
purpose other than the lawful use of the fund to which it is loaned. 
All such temporary loans shall be made without the paying of in- 
terest. In the event that the board of school trustees of any school 
city contemplated in this act shall desire to effect a temporary 
loan as herein provided, they may, at any regular meeting of the 
board, and by a majority vote of the board, declare the existence 
of an emergency, necessitating the making of a temporary loan, 
designating the fund from which such loan is to be made, the 
amount, the fund in the aid and use of which such loan is to be 
made, and the period of time for which such loan is to be made, all 
of which shall be entered as a matter of record upon the record 
book of such board of school trustees. If the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall in all other respects be complied with in the negotiation 



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of such loan, the board of school trustees may thereupon enter an 
order authorizing such loan, and upon the issuance of such order 
the funds so loaned shall be expended in the aid and use of the 
fund to which it is loaned, and in the same manner and subject 
to the same restrictions as may be prescribed by law for the expen- 
diture of such fund to which the loan is made. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 7. That an act entitled "An act providing for the govern- 
ment of school cities in cities having a population of more than 
63,000 inhabitants and less than 69,000 inhabitants, according to 
the last preceding United States census, making the general school 
laws of the state applicable thereto, providing for the election of 
school trustees, prescribing their duties and declaring an emer- 
gency", approved February 19, 1913, be and the same is hereby 
repealed. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Sections 347 to 352 inclusive, of the School Laws, 
the same being found in the Acts of 1913, P. 24. 



AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act authorizing certain 
incorporated towns to contract with township trustees relative to the 
joint use of the schools of such towns by inhabitants of such town 
and those of the township wherein such town is located, and rela- 
tive to the joint operation of such schools and the division of the 
expense thereof," approved February 24, 1917. 

[Acts, 1921, Chapter 162.] 

Joint School Between Township and Town or City. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General AssemNy of the State 
of Indiana^ That any city of the fifth class or any incorporated 
town in the state, the inhabitants of which town do not exceed 
two thousand (2,000) in number, as shown by the last preceding 
general United States census, having school indebtedness, by and 
through its school trustees, and the township trustee of the town- 
ship wherein any such town or city is situate, are hereby author- 
ized and empowered to contract with each other, on behalf of 
such town or city and such township, whenever there are no 
schools within such township except those wholly within such city 
or incorporated town, relative to all matters pertaining to the use 
of such schools by all of the inhabitants of such township, includ- 
ing the inhabitants of such city or town and relative to all matters 



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pertaining to the joint care, custody, repairs, management, main- 
tenance, support, conduct and control of common or grade schools 
and high schools located within the corporate limits of such city 
or town including the construction and equipment of new build- 
ings, and in any such contract it may be provided that the expense 
of such joint care, custody, repairs, management, maintenance, 
support, conduct and control of such schools, including new 
buildings and new equipment, shall be borne pro rata by such in- 
corporated town or city and by such townships, in such proportion 
as the assessed valuation of the taxable property of such township, 
outside of such city or town, bears to the assessed valuation of the 
taxable property within such city or town. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing amends Section 245, School Laws of 1917. 



AN ACT to provide for the acceptance of the benefits of an act passed 
by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in congress assembled to provide for the promotion of voca- 
tional rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherv^ise ; to 
provide for the appointment of a custodian of all moneys received by 
the state from appropriations made by the congress of the United 
States for the purpose stated; to provide for the appointment of 
a state board to co-operate vnth the federal board for vocational 
education in carrying out the provisions of said act, and prescribe 
its powers and duties ; to provide for a plan of co-operation between 
such state board and the industrial board of Indiana ; and to make 
appropriations to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of persons 
disabled in industry or otherwise. 

[Acts 1921, Chapter 204.] 



Acceptance of Federal Rehabilitation Act. 

Section 1. Be it enacted Ity the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That the State of Indiana does hereby, through its gen- 
eral assembly, accept the provisions and benefits of the act of con- 
gress, entitled ^'An act to provide for the promotion of vocational 
rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and 
their return to civil employment," approved June 2, 1920, and will 
observe and comply with all requirements of such act. 

Custodian of Fund. 

Sec. 2. The treasurer of state is hereby designated as custodian 
of all moneys received by the State of Indiana from appropria- 
tions made by the congress of the United States for the vocational 



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rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise, and is 
authorized to receive and provide for the proper custody of the 
same and to make disbursements therefrom upon the order of the 
state board herein designated, and upon warrant of the auditor of 
state. 

State Rehabilitation Board — Assistants. 

Sec. 3. The board heretofore designated by law as the state 
board for vocational education to co-operate with the federal 
board for vocational education in the administration of the provis- 
ions of the vocational education act, approved February 23, 1917, 
is hereby designated as the state board for the purpose of co- 
operating with the said federal board in carrying out the provis- 
ions and purposes of said federal act providing for the vocational 
rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and is 
empowered and directed to co-operate with said federal board in 
the administration of said act of congress; to prescribe and pro- 
vide such courses of vocational training as may be necessary for 
the vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or 
otherwise and provide for the supervision of such training; to 
appoint such assistants as may be necessary to administer this 
act and said act of congress in this state; to fix the compensation 
of such assistants and to direct the disbursement, and administer 
the use of all funds provided by the federal government and this 
state for the vocational rehabilitation of such persons. 

Plan of Co-Operation. 

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the state board, designated to co- 
operate as aforesaid in the administration of the federal act, and 
the industrial board of Indiana to formulate a plan of co-opera- 
tion in accordance with the provisions of this act and said act of 
congress, such plan to become effective when approved by the gov- 
ernor of the state. 

Gifts and Donations. 

Sec. 5. The state board designated to co-operate as aforesaid in 
the administration of the federal act, is hereby authorized and em- 
powered to receive such gifts and donations, either from public 
or private sources, as may be offered unconditionally or under 
such conditions related to the vocational rehabilitation of persons 
disabled in industry or otherwise as in the judgment of the state 



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board are proper and consistent with the provisions of this act. 
All the moneys received as gifts or donations shall be deposited in 
the state treasnry and shall constitute a permanent fund to be 
called the special fund for the vocational rehabilitation of dis- 
abled persons, to be used by the said board to defray the expenses 
of vocational rehabilitation in special cases, including the pay- 
ment of necessary expenses of persons undergoing training. A 
full report of all gifts and donations offered and accepted, to- 
gether with the names of the donors and the respective amounts 
contributed by each, and all disbursements therefrom shall be 
submitted annually to the governor of the state by the state board. 

Appropriation. 

Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated a sum of money, to be 
available for each fiscal year, of not less than the maximum sum 
which may be allotted to the state for the purposes set forth in 
said federal act, and there is hereby appropriated for such pur- 
poses out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropri- 
ated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1921, the sum of 
111,052.11. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 7. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and 
after its passage. 



AN ACT to ameucl section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 
1 of an act entitled 'An act to amend section two (2) of an act entitled 
"An act requiring tlie establishment and maintenance of township 
high schools, or joint high schools and elementary schools, and matters 
properly connected therewith," approved March 7, 1913,' law without 
signature of governor (1917), and to amend section 3 of an act entitled 
'An act requiring the establishment and maintenance of township 
high schools, or joint high schools and elementary schools, and mat- 
ters properly connected therewith,' approved March 7, 1913." Law 
without the signature of governor (1919), repealing all la\YS in con- 
flict therewith and declaring an emergency. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 130.] 

High School — Trustee to Establish Under Certain Conditions. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 



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read as follows : Section 1. That section 1 of the first above en- 
titled act be amended to read as follows : Section 1. That section 
two (2) of an act entitled "An act requiring the establishment and 
maintenance of township high schools, or joint high schools and 
elementary schools, and matters properly connected therewith," 
approved March 7, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended to 
read as follows : Section 2. That in each township in this state 
having an assessed valuation of more than six hundred thousand 
dollars (|600,000) of taxable property, and wherein there is not 
now established a high school in such township or in any town 
within such township and where there is no high school within 
three (3) miles of any boundary line of such township, and where- 
in for each of the two (2) years last past there have been eight (8) 
or more graduates of the township elementary schools residing in 
such township, the township trustee shall establish and maintain 
therein a high school and employ competent teachers therefor: 
Provided, That, in each township having an assessed valuation of 
more than twelve hundred and fifty thousand dollars (|1,250,000) 
of taxable property, whenever one-third (1/3) or more of parents, 
guardians, heads of families and persons living in such township 
having charge of children who were enumerated for school pur- 
poses in said township at the last preceding enumeration, petition 
the trustee of said township to establish and maintain a high 
school, or joint high school and elementary school, said trustee 
shall establish and maintain in such township a high school, or 
joint high school and elementary school as petitioned for and 
employ competent teachers therefor, notwithstanding there may 
be an established high school within three (3) miles of a boundary 
line of such township and regardless of the number of graduates 
of the elementary schools of such township; Provided, further, 
That in computing the distance of a boundary line of any town- 
ship from any high school outside of said township, as contem- 
plated in this act, said distance shall be measured on the shortest 
direct line from said high school building to the boundary line of 
said township. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 2. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith 
are hereby repealed. 



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Emergency. 

Sec. ?). Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act the same shall be in force and take effect from 
and after its passage. 

NOTE 1 : TTio foregoing amonds Section 1 of the Acts of 1919, P. 806, whieh 

amended section 255 of the School Laws of 1917. 
NOTE 2 : The foregoing act should be considered with Section 2 of the Acts of 

1919, P. 806. Said Section 2 is printed on page 24 of this supplement. 



AN ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled "An act authorizing school 
townships -and the corresponding civil townships to borrow money and 
issue bonds to purchase school grounds and erect school houses in 
certain cases," law without signature of the governor, 1917. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 124.] 

School Grounds and Buildings — Emergency For — Interest Rate. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section three (3) of the above entitled act be 
amended to read as follows : Section 3. In the event that such 
emergency shall be declared to exist, such advisory board shall 
authorize such trustee by special order, entered and signed upon 
the record, to borrow a sum of money to be named, sufficient to 
defray the expenses of purchasing such school grounds and erect- 
ing such school building or school buildings. Such advisory board 
shall in like manner authorize such trustee to issue the bonds of 
such school township and of such civil township in such amounts 
and in such denominations as may be necessary to secure the 
money borrowed to defray the expenses hereinbefore provided for. 
Such bonds so issued shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 
six per cent (6%) per annum, to be sold for not less than par and 
payable at such times within twenty (20) years from the date of 
issuance, as such advisory board may determine. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 2. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and 
after its passage. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Section 585, School Laws of 1917. 



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AN ACT providing for tlie appointment of elementary and high school 
inspectors, prescribing their powers and duties, providing that the 
several county, town and city superintendents shall be co-operating 
agents in the inspection of elementary and high schools, and repealing 
an act entitled "An act to provide for a high school inspector," ~ap- 
proved March 10, 1913. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 197.] 

Elementary and Hig-h School Inspectors — Duties. 

Section 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That the state superintendent of public- instruction, 
with the approval of the state board of education, shall appoint, 
within thirty days after this act takes effect, a suitable person to 
inspect elementary and high schools, and may appoint not to 
exceed one additional assistant to inspect elementary and high 
schools, if, in the judgment of the majority of the state board of 
education, the circumstances and needs of the schools warrant the 
services of more than one inspector, who shall work under the di- 
rection of the state superintendent of public instruction and the 
state board of education. The person or persons so appointed 
shall visit and inspect all public elementary and high schools in 
the state and confer with private and parochial school authorities 
and advise with them for the purpose of improving and standard- 
izing the work of these schools and for the purpose of co-ordinat- 
ing the work of the teachers and others charged with the respons- 
ibilities of these schools. The person or persons so appointed shall 
make a report as to the condition of all such schools inspected, at 
least once each j^ear, to the state board of education who may au- 
thorize certificates of classification to be issued to such public 
schools as shall have met the requirements and recommendations 
of the state board of education. 

Co-operating* Agents. 

Sec. 2. That each county superintendent of schools, and the 
superintendent of schools of each town and city having a board of 
school trustees or board of school commissioners, be and are here- 
by made co-operating agents for the inspection of both elementary 
and high schools within their respective jurisdictions. It shall be 
the duty of said superintendents to make reports as shall be re- 
quired of them by the inspectors acting under the direction of 
the state board of education. 



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Term of Office and Salary of Inspectors. 

Sec. 3. That the state superintendent of public instruction, 
with the approval of the state board of education, shall fix the sal- 
ary and term of office of the person or persons appointed under the 
provisions of section one (1) of this act, and said person or per- 
sons shall be allowed the necessary expenses incurred while en- 
gaged in the performance of their duties, and said person or per- 
sons shall be removable only by the state board of education: 
Promdcd, That the salary of the inspector shall not exceed three 
thousand (l{?3,000) dollars per annum, and the salary of his as- 
sistant shall not exceed twenty-five hundred (f 2,500) dollars per 
annum. 

Appropriation. 

Sec. 4. There is hereby appropriated annually out of the state 
treasury from money not otherwise appropriated an amount 
sufficient to pay the salary or salaries and expenses of the person 
or persons appointed under the provisions of this act. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 5. That an act entitled ^'An act to provide for a high school 
inspector,'' approved March 10, 1913, be the same is hereby re- 
pealed. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals sections 148 and 149, School Laws of 1917. 



AN ACT concerning the school work in the literary school departmenf of 
the Indiana Boys' School, prescribing the qualifications of teachers 
employed therein and requiring the state superintendent of public 
instruction to inspect and submit reports concerning such work. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 104.] 

Course of Study in Indiana's Boys' School. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That the course of study in the literary school depart- 
ment of the Indiana Boys' School shall, so far as practicable, be 
the same as the course of study in the corresponding grades of the 
public schools of this state. The text books used shall be the text 
books adopted for the public schools by the state board of text 
book commissioners, pupils shall be advanced from grade to grade 
in the same manner, and the same examination questions shall be 



used in testing the qualifications and standing of pupils therein as 
in the public schools of the state. 

Qualifications of Teachers. 

Sec. 2. The teachers employed in the literary school depart- 
ment of the Indiana Boys' School shall be regularly licensed teach- 
ers, and all of the laws of this state now in force or hereafter 
enacted relating to the qualifications and licensing of teachers in 
the public schools of this state shall be construed to apply in all 
respects to teachers employed in the literary school department of 
the Indiana Boys' School. 

Inspection. 

Sec. 3. The state superintendent of public instruction or his 
representative shall, at intervals, visit and inspect the literary 
school department of the Indiana Boys' School and shall submit 
to the governor and to the superintendent of the Boys' School his 
recommendations concerning the work of the literary school de- 
partment. 



AN ACT concerning the school attendance and the employment of minors, 
fixing penalties and repealing conflicting laws. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 132.] 

Attendance District — APP^^^^^®^* ^^ Attendance Officers — Extra 
Help and Salary.* 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That every county and every city having a school 
enumeration of two thousand (2,000) or more children of school 
age, shall constitute a separate attendance district. The county 
superintendent of schools shall nominate and the county board of 
education shall appoint an attendance officer who shall be qual- 
ified as required by this act and by the state board of attendance 
and who shall act as attendance officer for every school corporation 
of the county not organized as a separate attendance district. The 
superintendent of schools of each city having two thousand 
(2,000) or more children of school age shall nominate and the 
board of school trustees of such city shall appoint one attendance 
officer, and in like manner one additional attendance officer shall 
be nominated and appointed for every ten thousand (10,000) chil- 
dren of school age enumerated in such city. Every such city may 



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hire additional attendance officers and may require additional 
services of attendance officers not herein provided for, and may 
provide additional compensation for attendance officers above the 
maximum fixed by this act, but such additional attendance officers 
and such additional compensation shall be paid out of the funds 
of such school city. The board of school trustees of any city or 
town having less than two thousand (2,000) children of school age 
may organize such city or town as a separate attendance district 
under this act and may appoint an attendance officer in the man- 
ner herein provided, but such officer shall be paid entirely out of 
the funds of such board of school trustees. 

Attendance Officer — Date of Taking Office — Qualifications — 
Duties — Salary and Expenses. 

Sec. 2. Attendance officers shall take office on the first of Aug- 
ust and shall hold office for one year and until their successors 
have been elected and qualified unless said officers are removed 
from office by the state board of attendance. No person shall be 
nominated or appointed to the position of attendance officer or 
hold such appointment who has not completed the work of the 
elementary public schools, and who is not qualified in the man- 
ner, and in accordance with the standards and regulations deter- 
mined by the state board of attendance. 

Every attendance officer whose appointment is herein provided 
for shall serve subject to the rules, direction and control of the 
superintendent of schools of the attendance district of said attend- 
ance officer. Every attendance officer shall maintain an office at a 
place designated by the said superintendent of schools ; shall be on 
duty during school hours and at such other times as requested by 
said superintendent; shall keep such records and make such re- 
ports as are required by the state board of attendance and the said 
superintendent of schools; shall visit the homes of children who 
are absent from school or who are reported to be in need of books, 
clothing or parental care; shall, at the direction or with the ap- 
proval of the superintendent of schools or the state attendance 
officer or the state board of attendance, bring suit for the enforce- 
ment of any or all, of sections 1 to 17, inclusive, of this act ; shall 
visit factories where minors are employed; shall serve written 
notices on parents or guardians or custodians whose children are 
out of school illegally ; shall have the power to serve original and 
other processes in cases arising under sections 1 to 17, inclusive, 
of this act; and shall perform such other duties as are necessary 



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for the full and complete enforcement of sections 1 to 17, inclusive, 
of this act. Attendance officers and school officials are empowered 
and authorized to enter any place where minors are employed- for 
the purpose of determining whether there are violations of this 
act, and any officer, manager, director, employe or other person 
who refuses to permit, or in any way interferes with the entrance 
therein of such attendance officers or school officials, or who in any 
way interferes with any investigation therein, shall be guilty of 
a violation of this act. Attendance officers, unless otherwise pro- 
vided in this act, shall have their salaries fixed by the appointing 
board and shall receive from the county treasurer not less than 
three dollars (|3) nor more than five dollars (|5) per day for each 
day of actual service and shall further receive actual expenses 
necessary to the proper performance of their duties, said salaries 
and expenses to be paid by the county treasurer upon a warrant 
signed by the county auditor, and the county council shall appro- 
priate, and the board of county commissioners shall allow, the 
funds necessary to make such payments. No warrant for the pay- 
ment of such compensation or expenses shall be issued to any at- 
tendance officer until such officer shall have filed with the county 
auditor an itemized statement of the time employed and the ex- 
penses incurred, and until such statement shall have been ap- 
proved and certified as correct by the superintendent of schools 
under whom the said officer serves. 

State Board of Attendance — Duties— State Attendance Officer. 

Sec. 3. A state board of attendance is hereby created which 
shall consist of the members of the state board of education. The 
members of the state board of attendance shall annually elect a 
president and secretary from its membership and shall meet once 
a month and at the call of the president. The state board of at- 
tendance shall appoint a state attendance officer and fix his salary 
at a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars per year and his 
duties not otherwise provided for ; fix the qualifications of attend- 
ance officers; remove attendance officers from office for incom- 
petence or neglect of duty ; design and require the use of a uniform 
system of attendance reports, records and forms needed for the 
full enforcement of any or all of sections 1 to 17, inclusive, of this 
act ; and shall perform all other duties necessary for the full and 
complete interpretation and enforcement of sections 1 to 17, in- 
clusive, of this act. 



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State Attendance Officer — Duties. 

Sec. 4. The state «Ttteiidaiice officer shall be the executive officer 
of the state board of attendance ; shall tc appointed for a term of 
four years: Provided, hoioever, The state hoard of attendance 
may remove him at any time for cause; shall have general super- 
vision over the attendance officers of the state ; shall visit the vari- 
ous attendance districts of the state, inspect the work of the at- 
tendance officers and investigate the manner in which this act is 
being enforced ; shall also have authority to initiate court action 
wherever necessary for the enforcement of any or all of sections 1 
to 17, inclusive, of this act ; shall make such reports and perform 
such other duties as are required of him by the state board of at- 
tendance^ 

Compulsory Attendance Ag-e — Exemption from Attendance Based 
on Physician's Certificate — Provisions for Children Physically 
Defective — Juvenile Court. 

Sec. 5. Unless otherwise provided herein, every child between 
the ages of seven and sixteen years shall attend public school, or 
other school taught in the English language which is open to the 
inspection of local and state attendance and school officers ; and 
such child shall attend such school each year during the entire 
time the public schools are in session in the school district in 
which such child resides. The school superintendent of any at- 
tendance district may make or have made an examination of any 
01^ all children between the ages of seven and sixteen years and 
may exclude or excuse from school any child found mentally or 
physically unfit for school attendance, provided such exclusion 
or excuse is approved and certified to by a physician in good stand- 
ing, and providing further that such exclusion or excuse shall be 
valid for not longer than the school year during which it is issued. 
Provided, That no pupil or minor shall be compelled to submit to 
medical examination or treatment under authority of this section 
whose parent or guardian objects to the same. Such objection 
shall be made by written and signed statement delivered to the 
pupil's teacher or to any person who might conduct such examina- 
tion or treatment in the absence of such objection. Every prin- 
cipal and teacher in every public or other school which is attended 
by one or more minors between the ages of seven and sixteen years 
shall furnish, on the request of the superintendent of the attend- 
ance district wherein such school is located, a list of names, ad- 



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dresses and ages of all minors attending such school and shall fur- 
ther report immediately to such superintendent the name, address 
and date of withdrawal of every such minor under sixteen years of 
age withdrawing from such school and shall also immediately re- 
port to such superintendent the name and address of every such 
pupil absent from school without lawful excuse. 

Provided, If a child, otherwise subject to the provisions of this 
act, shall by reason of deafness or partial deafness, or of blind- 
ness, or partial blindness, be unable to secure in the school named 
a proper education by use of the sense of hearing, or of the sense 
of sight, the parent, guardian, or other person having the control 
or charge of such children shall cause them between seven and 
eighteen years of age to attend the Indiana state school for the 
deaf, or the Indiana state school for the blind, during the full 
scholastic terms of said schools, unless discharged therefrom by 
the board of trustees of either of said schools; and the employ- 
ment under the provisions of this act of any of said children be- 
tween the ages of seven and eighteen years during the school terms 
of said schools respectively is hereby prohibited unless a certifi- 
cate of discharge issued by the superintendent of either of said 
schools be presented as herein provided. Provided^ That no such 
child shall be employed contrary to the provisions of the law con- 
cerning the employment of minors in industry. Application for 
admission of such children to such schools, respectively, shall be 
made out in the usual form and passed upon by the board of trus- 
tees of said respective schools, and no child shall be permitted to 
enter either of said schools until the application shall have been 
accepted by the proper board of trustees, and upon the rejection 
of any child's application by either of said boards neither such 
child nor its parent, guardian, or other person having control or 
charge of it, shall thereafter, in respect of such child, be subject 
to the provisions of this act, until such child's application shall be 
accepted ; Provided, further, That the Judge of the Court having 
juvenile jurisdiction may suspend the provisions of this act in 
cases of juvenile delinquents and incorrigibles whenever, in his 
judgment, the welfare of any child warrants such action. 

Employment Certificates — Age Limit. 

Sec. 6. Any child over fourteen and under sixteen years of age 
who has completed the work of the first eight grades of the public 
scl^ool or its equivalent may be permitted to withdraw from school 



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upon the issuing to such child of a lawful employment certificate. 
Any child so permitted to withdraw from school shall return to 
school within five days after the termination of the employment 
for which such employment certificate was issued. No child, hold- 
ing a lawful employment certificate at the time this act goes into 
effect, shall be required to re-enter school because of any increase 
in educational or age standards for the issuance of employment 
certificates contained in this section. 

Attendance in Part Time and Full Time Schools. 

Sec. 7. Any child attending public school who has not com- 
pleted the sixth grade by the age of fourteen years may be required 
to attend a part-time school for full-time work or to attend a spe- 
cial full-time school which au}^ school corporation is hereby au- 
thorized to organize. 

Parent and Guardian Responsible. 

Sec. 8. Every parent and guardian of any minor child or ward 
shall be held legally responsible for any violation of this act by 
such child or w^ard, unless such parent or guardian is not a 
party to such violation. Before any proceedings are instituted 
against such parent or guardian for such violation of this act a 
written notice of such violation shall be served on such parent or 
guardian by the attendance officer, and one day shall be given for 
the termination of such violation, and if after such one day's 
notice the violation is continued or if the provisions of this act are 
again violated during the school term by such child or ward, no 
further notice shall be necessary and such parent or guardian 
shall be liable under the provisions of this act. 

Confirmed Truant. 

Sec. 9. Any child subject to the provisions of this act who 
habitually absents itself from school may on petition or recom- 
mendation of the attendance .officer and school superintendent of 
its school district, be tried by the Judge of ftny Juvenile, Circuit, 
or Superior Court, and may be declared by such court, a confirmed 
truant and may be sentenced by the judge, if a boy, to the Indiana 
boys' school, or if a girl, to the Indiana girls' school, or to such 
other custodial institution within the state as the judge may des- 
ignate, or to the care of a probation officer. 



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Schools For Incorrigible Children and Confirmed Truants. 

Sec. 10. All common school corporations in this state are here- 
by empowered to maintain, whether within or without the corpor- 
ation, a school for incorrigible children and confirmed truants. 
Any child who is incorrigible or a confirmed truant may be com- 
pelled by the school corporation to attend such school for an inde- 
terminate time : Provided , That such school may be established, 
maintained and controlled jointly by two or more common school 
corporations. 

School Attendance Record. 

Sec. 11. An accurate daily record of the attendance of all chil- 
dren between the ages of seven and sixteen years shall be kept by 
the teacher of every public and other school and such record shall 
at all times be open to the inspection of attendance and school offi- 
cials and agents of the industrial board of Indiana, and every such 
teacher shall fully answer all inquiries lawfully made by such at- 
tendance and school officials and such agents of the industrial 
board of Indiana. 

Temporary Aid for Poor Children. 

Sec. 12. If any parent, guardian or other person having con- 
trol or charge of any child subject to the provisions of this act, 
does not have sufficient means to furnish such child with books, 
school supplies, and clothing necessary to the attendance upon 
school, then the school corporation wherein such cl^ild resides 
shall furnish temporary aid for such purpose, which aid shall be 
allowed and repaid to such school corporation by the township 
overseer of the poor in the manner provided by law for the relief 
of the poor, upon presentation of an itemized statement of such 
temporary aid. 

Tax Levy. 

Sec. 13. For the defraying of tjie expense necessary for the 
carrying out of the provisions of this act, common school corpora- 
tions of this state are empowered to levy, in addition to any and 
all sums otherwise provided by law, an amount of school revenue 
not exceeding five cents on each |100.00 of taxable property, and 
such taxes shall be levied and collected as are other school rev- 
enues. This act shall not be construed to reduce or limit the ex- 
isting power of any school corporation to levy taxes for any pur- 



pose other than for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, 
and, after its passage, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, 
no levy by any school corporation in this state made in pursuance 
of this act shall be, or be treated as a part of any other levy or 
have the effect to reduce such corporation's power respecting the 
levy of taxes for purposes other than compulsory education or 
school attendance purposes. 

School Enumeration — Requirements. 

Sec. 14. It is hereby provided that the enumerators of school 
children, in taking the annual school census shall obtain such in- 
formation as may be required by the state board of education and 
shall also ascertain and record the place and date of birth of every 
child enumerated, and the parent, guardian, or other person hav- 
ing charge of such child shall subscribe and take oath or affirma- 
tion that such record is true to the best of his information, knowl- 
edge or belief. The enumerator is hereby empowered to admin- 
ister such oath or affirmation. 

Annual State Appropriation. 

Sec. 15. For the purpose of paying the expenses and salary of 
the state attendance officer and the expenses necessary for the 
^effective administration of this act by the state board of attend- 
ance, there is hereby appropriated annually out of the genera J 
fund of the state an amount necessary for such payments. 

Exiforcement of This Act — Officers Responsible. 

Sec. 16. It shall be the duty of the state board of attendance, 
the state attendance officer, the school superintendent, and attend- 
ance officers of the various attendance districts, and the sheriffs, 
constables and police of the various counties, townships, towns 
and cities of the state to enforce the provisions of sections 1 to 17, 
inclusive, of this act. Complaints under sections 1 to 17, inclusive, 
of this act against minors or against parents or guardians for any 
violation of this act by a minor, shall be filed before a juvenile 
court or a circuit court acting as a juvenile court, and such court 
may sit in chambers and such court shall hear such cases promptly 
and irrespective of the terms of the circuit court ; it is further pro- 
vided that when complaints are filed by attendance officers or 
school officers such officers shall act as probation officers in such 
cases, and without compensation; Provided, That any person 



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against whom complaint shall be made under this act shall be 
entitled to trial by jury if he shall so elect. 

Penalty. 

Sec. 17. Any person, or any agent for any person or any minor 
who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 1 to 17, inclu- 
sive, of this act, or who shall compel or encourage any minor to 
violate any of the provisions of sections 1 to 17, inclusive, of this 
act, or any parent or guardian whose minor child or ward violates 
any provisions of sections 1 to 17, inclusive, of this act, or any 
person who hinders or delays any officer or school official in the 
performance of his duty in the enforcement of this act, shall upon 
conviction be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than two 
hundred dollars ; or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding 
sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment within the discre- 
tion of the court. 

Employment of Minors — Age Limit. 

Sec. 18. No minor under the age of fourteen years shall be em- 
ployed or permitted to work in any gainful occupation other than 
farm labor or domestic service. It shall be unlawful for any per- 
son, firm "or corporation to employ or permit any minor to work 
in any occupation or service whatsoever during any of the hours 
when the common schools of the school corporation in which such 
minor resides are in session, contrary to the provisions of section 
6 of this act. 

Employment of Minors — Issuing Officers — Requirements for Issu- 
ing Employment Certificates — Revocation of Certificates. 

Sec. 19. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- 
tion to hire or employ or permit any minor between the ages of 
fourteen and eighteen years to work in any gainful occupation 
until such person, firm or corporation shall have secured and 
placed on file in the office of such person, firm or corporation a cer- 
tificate issued by the issuing officer, as hereinafter defined, of the 
school corporation in which said minor resides. Upon the request 
of any employer who desires to employ a minor who represents his 
or her age to be between eighteen and twenty-one years, it shall 
be the duty of the issuing officer to issue a certificate to such min- 
or. Upon the request of any parent or guardian, the issuing offi- 
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for causes other than employment. The issuing officer in all cities 
and incorporated towns having boards of school trustees shall be 
the superintendent of the schools of such city or such incorporated 
town or some person designated hj him in writing so to act, and 
in all other school corporations the issuing officer shall be the 
county superintendent of schools or some person or persons desig- 
nated by him in writing so to act ; Provided, That no school su- 
perintendent shall designate an issuing officer without the ap- 
proval of the state attendance officer. In case of a vacancy in the 
superintendency of the schools "of any such city or incorporated 
town, then during such vacancy, the president of the board of 
school trustees or the president of the board of school commis- 
sioners of such city or incorporated town or some one whom he 
shall designate, shall be the issuing officer thereof. No certificate 
shall be required for any minor between the ages of fourteen and 
sixteen years to perform farm labor or domestic service during the 
hours when schools of the school corporation in which such miiiors 
reside are not in session. The issuing officer of such school corpor- 
ation or the person authorized by him in writing so to act shall 
issue such certificate only to a minor whose employment is neces- 
sary and not prohibited by law, and only upon receipt of the fol- 
lowing four documents herein referred to as proof of age, proof 
of physical fitness, proof of schooling, and proof of prospective 
employment. 

Proof of Age. The issuing officer shall require one of the fol- 
lowing documents in the order named: 

(a) A birth certificate or duly attested transcript thereof is- 
sued by the registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged 
with the duty of recording births. 

(b) A baptismal certificate or transcript of the record of bap- 
tism, duly certified, showing the date of birth and place of baptism 
of the minor. 

(c) A bona fide contemporary record of the minor's birth, com- 
prising a part of the family record of births in the bible, or other 
documentary evidence satisfactory to the industrial board, such 
as a certificate of arrival in the United StateTiSsued by the United 
States immigration officers and showing the age of the child, a 
passport showing the age of the child, or a life insurance policy: 
Provided, That such other documentary evidence has been in exist- 
ence at least one year and in the case of a life insurance policy at 
least four years : and Provided, further, That a school record or a 



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parent's, guardian's or custodian's affidavit or other written state- 
ment of age shall not be accepted except as specified in paragraph 

(d). 

(d) A sworn statement by a public health physician or a pub- 
lic school physician or by the superintendent of school in all cities 
and incorporated towns having boards of school trustees and in 
all other school corporations by the county superintendent of 
schools, stating, in his opinion, the physical age of the minor. 
Such statement shall show the height and weight of the child and 
other facts upon which the opinion of such physician or superin- 
tendent is based. A parent's, guardian's or custodian's signed 
statement as to the age of the child, and the record of age as given 
by the register of the school first attended by the child, or in any 
school census, if obtainable, shall be submitted with the physi- 
cian's or superintendent's statement showing physical age. 

The officer issuing the certificate for a minor shall require the 
evidence of age stated in paragraph (a) in preference to that spe- 
cified in any subsequent paragraph and shall not accept evidences 
of age permitted by any later paragraph unless he shall receive 
and file evidence that the proof of age required in the preceding 
paragraph or paragraphs cannot be obtained. It shall be the duty 
of the custodian of such vital statistics to issue the transcript of 
the birth certificate herein provided for. 

Proof of Physical Fitness. The physical fitness of any minor 
herein contemplated to be employed in any designated occupation 
shall be proved by a certificate signed by a school health officer or 
public health officer, stating that the minor has been examined by 
him and that in his opinion such minor has reached the normal 
physical and mental development of a minor of its age, and is in 
sound health, and able to be employed in the occupation in which 
the minor intends to engage. 

Proof of Schooling. The requisite, prescribed schooling of any 
minor herein contemplated shall be proved by a certificate signed 
by the superintendent, principal or teacher of the school last at- 
tended, showing that the minor can read and write correctly sen- 
tences in the English language, and showing that he has satisfac- 
torily completed the eighth grade of the common schools, or its 
equivalent. In case such certificate cannot be obtained, then the 
superintendent of schools in cities or incorporated towns having 
boards of school trustees and in all other school corporations the 
superintendent of schools of the county in which such minor re- 



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sides shall examine such minor to determine whether he can meet 
the educational standard herein specified, and shall file in the 
office of the issuing officer a statement setting forth the result of 
such examination: Provided^ That proof of such educational 
qualifications shall not be required when the work is to cover only 
the whole or some pari, of the period when the common schools 
of the school corporation in which the minor resides are in vaca- 
tion, or hours when such schools are not in session. 

Proof of Prospective Employment. The prospective employ- 
ment of any minor herein contemplated shall be proved by a writ- 
ten statement signed by the person for whom the minor expects to 
work, setting forth the nature of the work which the minor intends 
to perform. 

Immediately upon the termination of the minor's employment, 
the employer shall notify the issuing officer in writing of that fact 
and the date of such termination, upon a blank form attached to 
the employment certificate ; and the parent, guardian or custodian 
of such minor shall, within five (5) days, exclusive of Sundays, 
and holidays, return such minor to school. It shall be unlawful 
for the issuing officer to issue a subsequent certificate until he 
shall have received a notice of the termination of the minor's em- 
ployment as herein provided. It shall be unlawful for any em- 
ployer to re-employ any such minor without first obtaining a new 
certificate. 

The certificate herein provided for shall set forth the full name, 
the date and place of birth of the applicant for such certificate, to- 
gether with the name and address of his parent, guardian or cus- 
todian and shall certify that the minor and his parent, guardian 
or custodian, have appeared before the officer issuing the certifi- 
cate and have submitted the proof of age, physical fitness, school- 
ing and prospective employment as required in this section. All 
blank forms necessary to carry out the j)rovisions of sections 18 to 
28, inclusive, of this act shall be prepared by the industrial board 
and supplied to the several issuing officers, and a sufficient amount 
of money to defray any expenses incurred by the industrial board 
in the printing and distribution of such forms is hereby appropri- 
ated annually out of any money in the general fund of the state 
treasury not otherwise appropriated. A copy of each such certifi- 
cate shall be mailed by the officer to the employer, a record of 
which shall be kept in the office of the issuing officer and another 
copy of which shall be forwarded by the issuing officer to the in- 



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dustrial board, within five (5) days after its issuance. The state 
board of attendance or the state industrial board may, at any 
time, revoke any such certificate, if in the judgment of either it 
was improperly issued, or if the state board of attendance or the 
industrial board has knowledge of the fact that the minor was 
illegally employed, and for that purpose the state board of at- 
tendance and the industrial board is hereby authorized to investi- 
gate into the true age of any such minor so employed, to subpoena 
witnesses, to hear evidence, and to require the production of 
relevant books or documents ; if the certificate be revoked, the issu- 
ing officer and the person, firm or corporation employing such 
minor at the time shall be notified in writing either in person or 
by registered letter of such action, and such minor shall not 
thereafter be employed or permitted to labor until, a new certifi- 
cate has been legally obtained. When any certificate is so revoked 
the employer shall return the same to the issuing officer immedi- 
ately after receiving notice of such revocation, as herein provided. 
Employment certificates shall he issued in such form and under 
such rules and regulations as shall be adopted from time to time 
by the industrial board and the state board of attendance, and 
which are not inconsistent with the provisions of law, and such 
as will promote uniformity and efficiency in the administration of 
this act. Any officer charged with the enforcement of the laws 
relative to the employment of minors may inquire into the true 
age of any such young person who is employed or permitted to 
work in any occupation and for whom no employment certificate 
is on file, and if the age of such young person be found to be 
actually under that authorized in this act, the employment of such 
young person or the fact that he is permitted to work at any such 
occupation shall be prima facie evidence of the unlawful employ- 
ment of such young person. 

Physical Examination of Minors. 

Sec. 20. Whenever so required, every minor between the ages 
of fourteen and eighteen years who is at work in any occupation 
other than farm labor or domestic service shall submit to a physi- 
cal examination by a medical inspector of the state industrial 
board or a physician designated by such board. The result of 
every such examination shall be recorded on a printed form which 
shall be furnished by and kept on file in the office of the state 
industrial board. If anv such minor fails to submit to such 



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examination, or, if on examination, the medical inspector finds the 
minor physically unfit to be employed in the work in which he is 
engaged and submits a report to that effect, which shall be kept 
on file in the office of the state industrial board, the said board 
shall thereupon revoke the minor's certificate. Written notice of 
such revocation shall be served in person or by registered letter 
upon the officer who issued the certificate and also upon the min- 
or's employer who shall immediately deliver to the state industrial 
board the minor's certificate. Any minor whose certificate has 
been so revoked may obtain a new certificate, provided he be 
found after a physical examination to be physically fit for the new 
occupation in which he purposes to engage. Whenever a female 
is required by the provisions of this section to submit to a physical 
examination by a medical inspector, she shall be entitled to have 
the examination made by a person of her own sex and no employer 
shall require or attempt to require a female to submit to a physical 
examination by a person not of her own sex. 

Hours of Employment of Minors—Requirements. 

Sec. 21. No boy between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years 
and no girl between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years shall 
be employed or permitted to work in any gainful occupation other 
than farm labor or domestic service more than eight hours in any 
one day, nor more than forty-eight hours in any one week, nor 
more than six days in any one week, nor before the hour of six 
o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of seven o'clock in the 
evening of any day. 

Every person, firm, corporation or company employing any boy 
between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, or any girl between 
the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, in any establishment con- 
templated in this act shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous 
place in every room where such minors are employed, a printed 
notice stating the maximum number of hours such persons may be 
employed or permitted to work in each day of the week, the hours 
of beginning and ending each day, and the time allowed for meals ; 
the printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the state in- 
dustrial board and the employment of such person for a longer 
time in any day than as stated or at any time other than as stated 
in said printed notice shall be deemed a violation of the provisions 
of this section. It shall be the duty of every person employing 
minors under the age of sixteen years to keep a register, in which 



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shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence 
of every person employed by him under the age of sixteen years. 
There shall be posted conspicuously in every room where minors 
under sixteen years of age are employed, a list of their names, with 
their ages, respectively. 

Minors Under 16 Excluded from Certain Occupations. 

Sec. 22. No minor under the age of sixteen years shall be em- 
ployed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacity in any of the 
following occupations: Oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery or 
assisting therein; operating or assisting in the operation of, or 
off-bearing at any of the following machines or apparatus whether 
power driven or not : Circular or band saws ; wood shapers ; wood 
joiners; planers; stamping machines used in sheet metal or tin- 
work manufacturing; stamping machines in washer or nut fac- 
tories, or any other stamping machine used in stamping metal; 
boiler or other steam generating apparatus; dough brakers or 
cracker machinery of any description ; wire or iron straightening 
machinery; rolling mill machinery; punch; shears; drill press; 
grinding or mixing mills ; calendar rolls in rubber manufacturing ; 
laundry machinery ; corrugating rolls of the kind used in roofing 
and washboard manufacturing ; metal or paper cutting machines ; 
corner staying machines in paper box factories ; assorting, manu- 
facturing or packing tobacco; in or about any mine, quarry, or 
excavation; or in any hotel; theatre; bowling alley; or in any 
other occupation dangerous to life or limb, or injurious to the' 
health or morals of such minor. 

Minors Under 18 Excluded From Certain Occupations. 

Sec. 23. No minor under the age of eighteen years shall be em- 
ployed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacity in any of the 
following occupations : Oiling and cleaning moving machinery ; 
in the operation of emery wheels except for the sharpening of 
tools used by an apprentice in connection with his work ; or at any 
abrasive, polishing or buffing wheel ; in the operation of any ele- 
vator, lift, or hoisting machine ; in or about establishments where 
nitroglycerine, dynamite, dualin, guncotton, gunpowder, or other 
high explosives are manufactured, compounded or stored ; in dip- 
ping, dyeing or packing matches ; in any saloon, distillery, brew- 
ery, or any other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are 
manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled ; or in any other occu- 



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pation dangerous to life or limb, or injurious to the health or mor- 
als of such minor. No boy under the age of eighteen years shall 
be employed or permitted to work as a messenger for a telegraph 
or messenger company in the distribution, transmission, or deliv- 
ery of goods or messages before six o'clock in the morning, or after 
ten o'clock in the evening of any day; and no girl under eighteen 
years shall be employed in any capacity where such employment 
compels her to remain standing constantly. 

Minors Under 21 Excluded From Certain Occupations. 

Sec. 24. No boy or girl under the age of twenty-one years of age 
shall be permitted to work in any public pool or billiard room. 

Manual Training Work in Schools. 

Sec. 25. Nothing in this act shall prevent any pupil from work- 
ing on any properly guarded machine in the manual training de- 
partment of any school when such work is performed under the 
personal supervision of an instructor. 

Industrial Board — Powers and Duties. 

Sec. 26. It shall be the duty of the state industrial board or 
its authorized inspectors and agents to cause sections 18 to 28, in- 
clusive, of this act to be enforced and to cause all violators of the 
same to be prosecuted, and for that purpose the said board, its 
inspectors and agents are empowered to visit and inspect at all 
reasonable hours and as often as shall be practicable and neces- 
sary, all establishments to which this act relates. It shall be the 
duty of the state industrial board, its inspectors and agents, to 
examine into all violations of laws made for the benefit and protec- 
tion of labor of minors and to cause all violations of the same 
to be prosecuted. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere 
with, obstruct or hinder said board, its inspectors or its agents, 
while in the performance of their duties or to refuse properly to 
answer questions asked by them in reference to any of the provi- 
sions thereof. 

Penalty. 

Sec. 27. Any person, firm or corporation or public oflScial who 
shall violate any of the provisions of sections 18 to 28, inclusive, 
of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars 



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(125.00) nor more than fifty dollars (f50) for a first offense, and 
not less than fifty dollars (|50) nor more than one hundred dol- 
lars (|100) for a second offense, to which may be added imprison- 
ment for not more than ten days, and for a third offense a fine of 
not more than two hundred and fifty dollars (|250) to which may 
be added thirty days imprisonment in the county jail. When so 
requested by the industrial board in writing, the attorney- general 
of the state shall assist the prosecuting attorney in the prosecu- 
tion of persons, charged with violating any of the provisions of 
sections 18 to 28, inclusive, of this act. 

Suits for Personal Injuries — Allegations and Proof. 

Sec. 28. In all action for damages for personal injuries by any 
minor or by his parent, guardian or personal representative, be- 
cause of his being employed, retained in employment, required 
or permitted to work in violation of any provision of sections 18 
to 28, inclusive, of this act, the employer shall not be permitted to 
defend upon the ground that such minor had assumed any risk 
of the employment, or that the injury was due to the negligence 
of a fellow servant, or to the contributory negligence of such 
minor. In any such action it shall be sufficient to allege and 
prove that such minor was employed, retained in employment, 
required or permitted to work in violation of any provision here- 
of and that the injury arose out of such employment, or the per- 
formance of such work. 

Exemption From Medical Examination. 

Sec. 28%. No pupil or minor exempt from medical examina- 
tion or treatment under the provisions of section 5 of this act 
shall be compelled to submit to any medical examination or treat- 
ment under authority of this, act, whose parent or guardian ob- 
jects to the same. Such objection shall be made by written and 
signed statement delivered to any person who might conduct 
such examination or treatment in the absence of such objection. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 29. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing by implication repeals Sections 609 to 623, incliasive, of 
the School Laws of 1917. 



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AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section 1 
of an act entitled 'An act providing for the sale of sctiool property, and 
declaring an emergency,' approved Marcli 12, 1907", approved Marcli 
14, 1919. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 166.] 

Sale of School Property by Township Trustee. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Imliana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That section 1 of the above entitled 
act be amended to read as follows : Section 1. That in all cases 
where school properties have not been used and occupied for 
school purposes for a period of two (2) years, or are unnecessary 
by reason of the construction of other schoolhouses, and the 
said school propert}' shall belong unconditionally to the township, 
the proper trustee may, upon petition signed by two-thirds of the 
qualified voters of the school district wherein said property is 
situated, sell the same for the highest price that can be obtained 
therefor, but not less than two-thirds of its appraised value, and 
upon the payment of the i)ur chase money to the tow^nship trustee, 
he shall execute to the purchaser a deed of conveyance, if of real 
estate, and a bill of sale if of building or buildings, which shall 
be sufficient to vest in such purchaser all the title of such town- 
ship thereto : Provided, That if either any land with a school- 
house thereon, or any land where the schoolhouse no longer re- 
mains thereon, or any schoolhouse shall have been abandoned and 
neither used nor occupied for school purposes for a period of ten 
(10) years, the proper trustee, by and with the consent and ap- 
proval of the township advisory board, may sell either such land 
with a schoolhouse thereon, or any land where the schoolhouse no 
longer remains thereon, or any such schoolhouse for the highest 
price that can be obtained therefor, but not l^ss than two-thirds 
of its appraised^ value, and upon the payment of the purchase 
money to the township trustee, he shall execute to the purchaser 
a deed of conveyance, if of real estate, and a bill of sale if of build- 
ing or buildings, which shall be sufficient to vest in such purchaser 
all the title of such township thereto. Any such sale shall be 
made only after any such property has been duly appraised by 
three disinterested householders of the neighborhood, as other 
property is required to be appraised, and the publication of notice 
of the sale thereof for three (3) successive weeks in a newspaper 
of general circulation printed and published in the township, if 



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any, otherwise in such paper printed and published in the town- 
ship nearest thereto, and by posting five (5) notices of such sale 
in the township, three (3) of which shall be in the district wherein 
any such property is situated, at least three weeks prior tothe 
date of such sale. The money derived from the sale of any such 
property shall be a part of the special school revenue, and shall 
be duly reported and accounted for by such trustee. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Section 1, Acts of 1919, P. 695. The Act of 1919, 
repealed Section 184, of the School Laws of 1917. 



AN ACT authorizing a school trustee or school trustees in a school cor- 
poration lying adjacent to a school corporation of another state to 
enter into an agreement with the school authorities thereof and 
purchase school grounds, repair or construct school buildings, and 
maintain a school jointly. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 240.] 

Joint Schools Between Indiana and Another State. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Asseinbly of the State 
of Indiana^ That, whenever, in the judgment of a school trustee or 
a board of school trustees of any school corporation in this state, 
lying adjacent to a school corporation of another state, the best 
interests of the public schools can be promoted by purchasing 
school grounds, repairing or erecting a school house or school 
houses, and maintaining a school jointly between the two adjacent 
school corporations, the school trustee or school trustees of the 
school corporation of this state so situated are hereby empowered 
to enter into an agreement with the school authorities of said 
adjacent school corporation for the purpose of purchasing school 
grounds, repairing or constructing school building or buildings, 
purchasing school furniture, equipment, appliances, fuel, employ- 
ing teachers and maintaining a school when, in the judgment of 
said school trustee or trustees of this state the^best interests of 
the public school can be promoted by so doing; and such trustee 
or trustees of this state are hereby empowered to levy taxes and 
perform such other duties in maintaining such joint school as are 
otherwise provided by law for maintaining the public schools in 
this state. In carrying out the provisions of this act the school 
corporation shall pay such proportion of the cost of purchasing 
school grounds, repairing or erecting new building or buildings, 
and in maintaining the joint school as shall seem to be equitable 
and just in the judgment of the school trustees of the two ad- 
jacent school corporations. 



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Emergency. 

Sec. 2. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
eli'ect of this act; the same shall be in full force and effect from 
and after its passage. 



AN ACT to amend sections two (2), three (3), mne (9), ten (10), eleven 
(11), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), sixteen (IG), seventeen (17), eigh- 
teen (18), and twenty (20), and to repeal sections five (5), six (6), 
eight (S), and fifteen (15) of an act entitled "An act concerning an- 
nuities or benefits for teachers retired after specified 3'ears of ser- 
vice or for disability, and other matters connected therewith and per- 
taining thereto," (Acts 1915, p. 658). 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 256.] 

Retirement Fund. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, that section two (2) of the above entitled act be 
amended to read as follows : Section 2. The Indiana state teach- 
ers' retirement fund shall consist of the funds hereinafter enum- 
erated. 

Board of Trustees — Appointment. 

Sec. 2. That section three (3) of the above entitled act be 
amended to read as follows: Section 3. The control and man- 
agement of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund shall be 
vested in a board of trustees to be known and designated as the 
board of trustees of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund. 

Said board shall be composed of five members who shall be 
appointed by the governor of the state and not more than two of 
whom shall be teachers as defined by this act. 

Appointments of trustees by the governor shall be made be- 
tween the 1st and 15th days of June, the first appointment shall 
be made in June, 1921. The terms of office of_trustees so ap- 
pointed or designated shall begin on the first day of August fol- 
lowing their appointment, and, except in cases of the first ap- 
pointment shall be for four years. In making the first appoint- 
ments the governor shall appoint one member for one year, one 
for two years, one for three years and two for four years. Va- 
cancies in the board of trustees caused by the death or resignation 
of members shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired terms. 
All members shall serve until their successors are appointed and 
have qualified. The board formed under the acts of 1915 shall 
serve until the board formed under this act shall organize and at 



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that time shall turn over to the board formed under this act, all 
records and other papers and materials of the board of trustees 
of the Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Fund, together with 
all funds belonging to the Indiana ^tate Teachers' Retirement 
Fund as at present constituted. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 3. That sections 5, 6, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 22 of the 
act to which this act is an amendment are hereby repealed. 

Duties of Board — Appointment of Assistants — Yearly Assessment 
—Withdrawals — Appropriation — Tax Levy. 

Sec. 4. That section 9 of the above entitled act be amended 
to read as follows : Section 9, The board of trustees of the In- 
diana State Teachers' Retirement Fund shall have power to adopt 
and enforce all necessary by-laws and regulations for the govern- 
ment and administration of the department and the control and 
investment of the funds committed to its care not inconsistent 
with the provisions of this act. Said board may sue and be sued 
under the name and style of the board of trustees of the Indiana 
State Teachers' Retirement Fund; shall have authority to sum- 
mon and examine witnesses in the adjustment of claims, shall 
have authority in adjusting disability claims to require physical 
examinations by doctors approved or appointed by the said board 
as provided by this act, but shall not require more than two such 
examinations in any one year; shall have power to meet any 
emergencies which may arise in the administration of its trust; 
and shall have discretionary power in determining all matters 
pertaining to its trust not specifically provided for in this act. 

Members of said board shall serve without pay except that all 
traveling and all other necessary expenses shall be paid upon 
proper order of the board. 

The board shall appoint an executive secretary who shall keep a 
true and accurate record of the proceedings of the board and 
who shall have the care and custody of books and records be- 
longing to the department and shall give such bond as fixed by 
the board. The board shall fix the salary of the executive secre- 
tary and employ such other assistants and fix their compensa- 
tion subject to the approval of the governor. The board shall 
provide for an actuarial investigation at the end of the first year 
of the operation of this act and bi-ennially thereafter, for a period 
of ten years, and every four years thereafter and make such ad- 



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justments in the assessments or payments to be made by teachers 
as may be necessary to provide not less than three-sevenths of an 
annuity of |700 per year to teachers of 60 years of age and who 
have served 40 years, and based on the teacher's age at nearest 
birthday at the time of beginning service, and withdrawals, and 
death benefits prior to the maturity of the annuity as fixed by 
this act have been allowed for, in making the rates. Each teacher 
shall be assessed in each year of service in which assessriient is 
made at the following rates, unless adjusted as above provided, 
to-wit ; 

Age at Begin- Rates of Annual 

ning Service Contribution 

18 132.45 

19 34.06 

20 35.77 

21 34.89 

22.... .34.01 

23 33.12 

24 32.22 

25 31.33 

26 30.43 

27 29.53 

28 28.63 

29 27.73 

30 26.83 

~ 31 25.94 

32 25.04 

33 24.15 ~ 

33 24.15 

34 23.27 

35 22.38 

36 21.51 

37 20.65 

38 19.77 

39 18.90 

40 18.04 

No teacher who has received credit under this act for 40 years 
service shall be assessed after becoming 60 years of age. 



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In the event that any teacher, a member of the fund, leaves the 
service of the public schools for any reason, that teacher shall be 
entitled to withdraw the following portions of her contributions : 

After one year 25% 

After two years 35% 

Attet three years 45% 

After four years 55% 

After five years 65% 

After six years 75% 

After seven years 85% 

After eight years 90% 

After nine years 95% 

After ten years 100% 

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If such teacher returns to the employ of a state school to which 
this act applies such teacher shall be required to pay into said 
fund within one year the amount withdrawn therefrom and shall 
thereupon have credit for a.ll the service comprehended in the 
amount so withdrawn and repaid. 

The tables adopted as the basis for the actuarial computations 
made in determining the rate of assessment in this act are the 
^^American Annuitants, Select Female Tables," at 4%. 

There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the state 
treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of thirty thousand 
(130,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to 
cover the deficit for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1920, and 
any deficit for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1921, occa- 
sioned by the operation of the Act of 1915, above mentioned. In 
the year 1922 there shall be levied, as other state taxes are levied, 
an Indiana State Teachers' Ketirement Fund levy, sufficient to 
provide the necessary funds to cover the actuarial liability incur- 
red by the state for the first year of the operation of this act as 
determined by the first actuarial investigation above provided 
for. On the basis of the actuarial investigations bi-ennially, the 
trustees of the Indiana Teachers' Ketirement Fund shall submit 
its budget and estimated necessary tax levies to the governor 
or to such other officer or committee as shall be by law authorized 
to recommend to the General Assembly the necessary tax levies 
and the General Assembly shall make the necessary tax levies for 
the succeeding bi-ennium which shall be sufficient to provide the 
necessary fund to cover the estimated liability of the state under 
this act for the current year and the succeeding year. 



Gifts, Grants, Bequests— Pension Fund— Disbursements. 

Sec. 5. That section ten (10) of the above entitled act be 
amended to read as follows : Section 10. The board of trustees 
of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund shall have charge 
of all property belonging to said fund and may take by gift, grant, 
devise, or bequest, any money or property given to said fund, and 
any such gift, grant, devise, or bequest may be absolute, or upon 
any condition as the donor may make, and said Board shall per- 
form any condition so made, and may hold the same, and unless 
otherwise provided by the condition of the trust may assign, 
transfer or sell the same whenever proper and necessary for the 
benefit of the retirement fund. The board shall receipt for all 
such gifts, grants, devises, bequests, and all other funds belonging 
to or coming into the fund and shall judiciously invest the same. 
The board shall receive and receipt for all moneys coming into the 
fund and deposit the same with the treasurer of State as is re- 
quired by the depository law as it affects other state funds, and 
make such quarterly reports to the auditor of state as are required 
by law to properly transfer the fund to the books of the Auditor 
of State's office. The board shall direct all disbursements from 
this fund and the auditor of state shall issue his warrant on the 
treasurer of state on properly itemized vouchers officially ap- 
proved by the president and executive secretary of the board of 
trustees of the Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Fund or in 
the absence or incapacity of both officers by such other member 
or members of the board as the board shall by order direct. 

Investment of Fund. 

Sec. 6. That section eleven (11) of the above entitled act be 
amended to read as follows: Section 11. The Board of trustees 
of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund shall determine 
what part of said fund may be safely invested and how much 
shall be retained for the immediate needs, demands and exigencies 
of said fund. Such investments shall be made in interest-bearing 
bonds of the United States ; or of the state of Indiana, or in any 
bond lawfully issued by state or county, township, city or other 
municipal corporation within the State of Indiana. All bonds 
and other securities shall be deposited with and remain in the 
custody of the treasurer of state, who shall collect all interest 
due thereon and all the income therefrom, as the same shall be- 
come due and payable, and deposit the same to the credit of the 



Indiana state teachers^ retirement fund, as directed in this act, 
and account for all interest and income as provided by law. 

Records — Division of Fund — Expenses — Annual Report. 

Sec. 7. That section thirteen (13) of the above entitled act be 
amended to read as follows: Section 13. The said board shall 
provide forms and blanks necessary to carry out the provisions 
of this act, and shall establish records and accounts which are 
sanctioned by the state board of accounts, and which will afford 
such information as an actuary would need in making an exam- 
ination. 

The said Board shall keep individual records of the members of 
the fund showing name, date of birth, age at beginning service, 
record of service, address, contributions to the fund by the mem- 
ber, withdrawals, annuities paid and such other items as are 
deemed necessary. 

The board shall provide for the segregation of the fund into 
the following accounts : 

1st. The annuity savings account. Said annuity savings ac- 
count shall consist of contributions from teachers as hereinafter 
provided and the earnings thereon and interest on investment or 
deposits of the permanent account, and the amount now in the 
state teachers' retirement fund, and all other funds from any 
source not by this act made part of any other account. The 
amount in the current fund, under the present law, shall be paid 
over to the annuity savings account at the time of the taking effect 
of this act. 

2d. The pension reserve account. Said pension reserve ac- 
count shall consist of the contributions of the state, under the con- 
ditions named in this act, and the earnings thereon. The sum of 
the annuity savings account added to the pension reserve ac- 
count, to be supplied by the state, shall contain an amount equal 
to, or greater than, the aggregate of the actuarial liabilities, in- 
curred by the years of service, of all contributors or beneficiaries 
of the fund, except as hereinafter noted. 

3d. A permanent account. Said permanent account shall be 
made up of (a) all gifts, grants, devises, and bequests in money, 
property, or other form, which the board of trustees may receive, 
(b) All other money or property which may be derived from any 
other source by operation of law or otherwise be made a part of 
this account, and no part of the principal of said permanent 



account shall, unless the conditioils of a gift or donation shall 
require it, be expended, and only the interest and income thereon 
and therefrom shall be expended. 

The said Board shall pay all expenses attendant upon adminis- 
tration of this act and provide for the bond of the Executive Sec- 
retary from the pension reserve fund, in the manner prescribed 
by this act. 

The said Board shall make an annual report to the governor 
and to such other administrative officials of the state as the law 
may require accounting for the funds in its control and shall sum- 
marize this report for the information of the beneficiaries of the 
fund. 

Membership — Payment of Assessment — Deceased Member — Ar- 
rearages — Withdrawal — Retirement — Disability Benefits — 
Computing Years of Service. 

Sec. 8. That section 14 of the above entitled act be amended 
to read as follows : Section 14. The members and beneficiaries of 
this fund shall include any legally qualified and regularly em- 
ployed teacher, teacher-clerk, supervising principal, principal, 
supervisor, superintendent of schools, person in charge of teach- 
ing any special department of instruction or training, or any 
other teacher or instructor legally qualified and regularly em- 
ployed as such in any of the public schools of this state ; or in any 
public state normal school of the state, supported wholly by public 
money, and devoted to the preparation of teachers ; or the legally 
qualified and regularly employed teachers, principals, superin- 
tendent and others named above in any other public state educa- 
tional institution of this state supported wholly by public money 
and whose teachers devote their entire time to teaching and the 
legally qualified and regularly employed teachers in state benevo- 
lent, charitable, and correctional institutions whose teachers de- 
vote their entire time to teaching ; and employes in the office of 
the state superintendent of public instruction or in the office of 
the state teachers' retirement fund who were qualified under this 
act previous to their election or appointment. The Secretary to 
the President and the Assistant Librarian of the Indiana State 
Normal School, shall be construed to be teacher-clerks within 
the meaning of this act. The members of the fund shall be as 
follows : 

1. All teachers as herein defined, who are employed to teach 
in the public schools of the state and whose services in such 



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schools begin after June 30, 1921, and who are not employed in 
those units described by this act, having before the passage of 
said act of 1915, a local pension system. 

2. Those teachers who entered service in" such schools of the 
state before the passage of this amending statute but who were 
not members of the state pension system, and who before Sep- 
tember 1, 1922, shall elect to receive membership in this system 
by the payment of arrearages under the conditions set forth by 
this act. 

3. Members of units established under this act before amend- 
ment. Provided^ hoivevery Thsit teachers in any school corpora- 
tion which had at the time of the passage of said act of 1915 a 
pension or annuity system, may not become members of this fund 
except under the conditions and terms as set forth in this act. 

And also provided that teachers in any state institution which 
is operating under any pension or annuity system not provided 
for by the laws of the State of Indiana may not come under the 
provisions of this act, but in the event that these institutions cease 
to operate under the system mentioned above, the teachers may be- 
come members of the fund created under this act, under conditions 
established by the board of trustees of the Indiana state teachers' 
retirement fund hereby created, provided that those conditions 
shall be consistent with the provisions of this act. 

The said board shall determine the actuarial liability incurred 
by the years of service of the present teachers who shall elect 
membership in the fund as provided for in this act, or who have 
been members of units established by this act before amendment, 
or who are granted credit for prior experience as provided for by 
this act, and shall determine the state's share as hereinbefore 
declared of this liability, and shall distribute the payment of this 
liability over a period of years which will be equitable to state 
and to the fund. 

The said board shall issue to each person claiming prior service, 
upon the presentation of that claim the form established and 
approved by the board, a certificate of the amount of prior service 
allowed by the board which shall be final unless changed on re- 
hearing applied for within one (1) year by the person making the 
claim. 

It shall be the duty of paying officials, at the time of payment 
of salaries to teachers for the second, fourth, and sixth school 
months of each school year, to deduct from the salaries of each of 
the teachers whose names have been so reported, an amount equal, 






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as nearly as possible, to one-third of the total amount due from 
said teacher for the entire school year as assessments under this 
act, and said paying official shall, between the first and fifteenth 
days of January and June of each year, pay over to the board 
of trustees of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund all 
money so coming into his hands. 

In the event of the death of any teacher who is a member under 
the provisions of this act, before such teacher has retired on an 
annuity then and in that event the estate of the deceased teacher 
shall be entitled to a sum chargeable to the annuity savings ac- 
count equal to the contributions of the teacher with interest 
thereon compounded annually at 4%, if application therefor be 
made within three (3) years after the death of such teacher but 
not otherwise. 

It shall be the duty of the administrative officers of school cor- 
porations or institutions in the state, affected by this act, before 
employing or re-employing in any teaching position, any person 
to whom this act may apply, to notify such person of his duties 
and obligations under this act as a condition of employment and 
shall have those duties and obligations made a part of the con- 
tracts of those teachers who come under the provision of this act. 

It shall be the duty of such administrative and executive officers 
on or before October 1st of each year, to report all teachers who 
come under the provision of this act in the employ o'f the respec- 
tive corporations with the pension account number for each to 
the board of trustees of the Indiana state teachers' retirement 
fund and report at definite periods throughout the year teachers 
employed after the annual report so rates of assessment, and 
other information may be verified. Forms for this purpose shall 
be prescribed and furnished by the governing board. 

All teachers new to the service shall fill out a record form pre- 
scribed by the governing board at the time of signing the first 
contract. This shall be forwarded immediately to the board of 
trustees of the retirement fund. 

The board of trustees of the Indiana state teachers retirement 
fund shall pay any school corporation of the state, having a local 
pension or annuity system and which does not elect to become a 
part of the state teachers' retirement fund system, an amount 
equal to the proceeds of the state teachers' retirement fund levy 
collected on the property of the said corporation for the current 
3^ear, and the levying power of the local corporation for its own 



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pension or annuity system shall, to the extent of such state levy, 
be reduced. 

If at any time, in accordance with the x^rovisions of this act, 
such local system elects to become a part of the state teachers 
retirement system such payments to such local unit shall not be 
made. 

Teachers coming under the provisions of this act shall be re- 
quired to pay as arrearages an amount equal to the amount which 
would have accumulated from their contributions with 4% com- 
pound interest* had they been members under this act as amended 
for the number of years which they claim for prior service, pro- 
vided that a teacher may waive his or her right to former service 
and pay only current rates from the time when the membership 
begins and receive no credit for prior service. These arrearages 
may be paid in cash the first year or in a series of installments 
according to the rules and regulations of the board of trustees of 
the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund or may be left as a 
lien against the annuity, provided, however, that deferred pay- 
ment or adjusted accounts must bear interest at 4% per annum 
which shall be compounded if not paid. In case of retirement be- 
fore all arrearages are paid, the annuity otherwise available will 
be reduced in the proportion which the amount unpaid bears to 
the then present value of such annuity. 

Provided, .homever, That teachers who are members of a pen- 
sion unit established under this act before amendment and have 
not retired on pension shall receive credit on their arrearages for 
the proportionate part which the pension created under this act 
before amendment bears to the pension created by this amend- 
ment under the following provision. 

1. In case of retirement before thirty-five years of service, 
the annuity granted shall be based upon the then cash value of 
the actual payments made by the teacher with 4% compound 
interest. 

2. In case of withdrawal, the amount paid in under this act 
before amendment shall be refunded, under the term of the act 
before amendment but the amount paid in under the act as 
amended shall be returned under terms of the act as amended. 

Any person coming under the provisions of this act who shall 
have rendered 40 years or more teaching service in the public 
schools of the state and shall have attained the age of 60 years, 
who ceases to be in the employ of the public schools of the state, 



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for any cause shall be entitled to an annuity of .f700 payable in 
four installments on tlie tenth day of January, April, July and 
October and terminating with the last payment made prior to 
the death of the annuitant. 

Any person who shall have taught twenty-five years or more in 
the public schools and who ceases to be in the employ of the public 
schools of the state for any cause, may in lieu of any other benefit 
be entitled to an annuity payable as above of such an amount as 
the then present value of the annuity which would otherwise have 
ultimately been available, computed on the actuarial basis pro- 
vided for, will purchase at such teacher's age of retirement, based 
upon actuarial tables made a part of this law or as so later 
adopted by the board of trustees. 

Any teacher in the service of the public schools of the state may 
be temporarily or permanently retired for disability on a benefit 
in accordance with this act after he or she shall have served as 
such teacher according to the provisions of this act for a period 
of ten years or more : and Provided^ -furttier, That when a teacher 
is retired for any disability such retirement shall continue only 
until such disability is relieved or removed, and no disability 
benefit shall be paid to such teacher after medical examination 
made on demand of the board of trustees of the Indiana state 
teachers' retirement fund and by a physician approved by the said 
board and made at the expense of said teacher shall establish to 
the satisfaction of the board that such disability is removed. No 
benefit for disability continuing for less than one-half of a school 
year shall be paid. 

The disability benefits paid shall be at the rate of $500 per 
annum, provided, however, that no disability benefit will be paid 
at a greater rate than 5/8 of the contract salary of the year in 
which the disability occurred. 

In computing years of service, as provided in this act, the 
board of trustees may include service as a public school teacher 
rendered outside of the state not however in excess of 10 years 
for such outside service nor for more than one-fourth of the years 
of service claimed for retirement as a portion of the service neces- 
sary before any teacher shall be entitled to be paid any benefits 
under this act. The age which the teacher had attained at the 
time of beginning service in the earliest year for which credit is 
granted shall be taken as the age of beginning service as pro- 
vided by this act and arrearages based on that age of beginning 



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shall be paid for the years of service for which credit is granted. 
Provided that nothing in this section shall effect the amount or 
amounts to be paid into such retirement fund by teachers before 
being entitled to an annuity. 

Provided that teachers who are members of units already estab- 
lished under this act before amendment shall receive the same 
credit for prior experience including experience outside the state 
as they were given credit for under that act, and any teacher 
who desires, may withdraw from the conditions of the old act 
and elect membership under the provisions of the new. 

Any teacher may be given a leave of absence for study, pro- 
fessional improvement, or temporary disability, not exceeding one 
year in seven, and shall be regarded as a teacher and entitled to 
the benefits of this act, provided that during such absence he or 
she continues to pay into such fund the amount of assessment pay- 
able by such teacher as provided by this act. 

Credit shall be given under this act for all years of service 
rendered under its provisions before, as well as after, the taking 
effect of this amending act. And the full term of schoo^in the 
corporation in which such service was rendered shall constitute 
a year of service under this act. 

No teacher shall be granted more than a year of credit for 
service rendered during any one calendar year. 

No teacher not granted a pension before the passage of this 
amending act, shall receive any pension money before January 1, 
1922, but pensions granted under the act of 1915 shall be con- 
tinued at the same rate under this act and shall be governed by 
the law in force after this act becomes a law. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing amenrls sections 921, 922, 928, 929, 930, 932 and 933 of 
the School Laws of 1917, and repeals sections 924, 925, 927, 934 to 939 
inclusive, and section 941 of the School Laws 1917. 



AN ACT to amend sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled "An act concerning 
the consolidation of district schools in two or more townships," 
approved February 23, 1917, and adding certain supplemental actions 
thereto, 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 2G8.] 

Petition for Consolidation — Duty of Trustee. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 1. That whenever a majority of the 



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voters in two or more school districts in adjoining townships 
shall petition the township trustees of such adjoining townships 
to abandon such school district or districts so situated in such 
adjoining townships and to consolidate such districts into a single 
consolidated school district, the township trustees of such adjoin- 
ing townships shall provide for such consolidation, erect and 
equip the necessary school building or buildings and maintain 
such consolidated school jointly and shall apportion the cost of 
such construction and maintenance among the townships in pro- 
portion to the assessed valuation of that part of the consolidated 
school district lying in each township. A duplicate or copy of the 
petition filed with the township trustees shall be filed with the 
county superintendent of schools of such county. 

Control — Location of Building — Appeal. 

Sec. 2. The township trustees of the several townships in 
which any part of such consolidated district is located, together 
with the county superintendent of the county in which such 
townships are located, shall constitute a board for the construc- 
tion, equipment and maintenance of such school. The several 
trustees of the townships within which any part of said consoli- 
dated district is located, shall meet with such county superin- 
tendent of schools at a time to be fixed by him, within ten (10) 
days after the presentation of such petition for consolidation and 
shall organize by the election of a clerk and treasurer of such 
board and shall thereafter provide for the location within such 
district of a suitable school building or buildings, procure the nec- 
essary grounds for the location of the same, and provide for its 
construction, equipment and maintenance: Provided^ That if in 
the petition filed as provided for in section 1 of this act, a ma- 
jority of the voters of the school districts proposed to be consol- 
idated shall specify the place in such consolidated district where 
such building is to be located, said board shall arrange for its 
location at such place : Provided, further. That an appeal from 
any adverse or favorable decision of such board as to the suffici- 
ency of the petitions filed or from a decision refusing or determ- 
ining to consolidate such districts may be taken by the voter or 
voters affected to the circuit or superior court of the county 
in which such school districts are situated. Notice of such appeal 
shall be given in writing by the parties taking the appeal within 
ten (10) days after such decision, to the chairman of such board 



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and a bond for costs shall be filed by the parties taking the at>- 
peal or someone in their behalf within twenty (20) days after such 
decision and on the filing of such bond the chairman of such board 
shall at once transmit to the clerk of the court to which the ap- 
peal is taken, all petitions and papers theretofore filed by the 
petitioners and a transcript of the decision or ruling appealed 
from. On the hearing of such appeal all matters involved shall be 
tried de novo by the circuit or superior court, without the inter- 
vention of a jury. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 3. The presentation of the petitions to the trustees as pro- 
vided for in section 1 hereof and the consolidation of such dis- 
tricts into one consolidated district, shall be deemed to create an 
emergency for the erection and construction of a school building 
in such consolidated school district, and the advisory boards of 
the several townships affected by such consolidation shall meet on 
the call of the trustees of their respective townships and shall pro- 
vide and appropriate on behalf of their respective townships 
the necessary funds to enable the board provided for in section 2 
of this act to construct and equip such school house and maintain 
such school. Such funds when provided shall be paid to the 
treasurer of said board and shall be paid out by him on the 
orders of said board. 

Management of School^Fund to Maintain. 

Sec. 4. That section 2 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows: Section 2. After such consolidation has been 
affected and a schoolhouse constructed and equipped, the consol- 
idated school shall thereafter be under the control and manage- 
ment of said board provided for in section 2 hereof. The fund 
for its maintenance shall be provided by the several trustees of 
the townships in which any part of said consolidated district is 
located, in proportion to the assessed valuation of property in that 
part of the consolidated district located in the township and 
shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of such consolidated 
district following each distribution of revenues to the trustees by 
the county auditor. 

Organization of Board — Records. 

Sec. 5. The officers comprising the board for the management 



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and control of such consolidated school shall meet and organize 
after their first organization, in the first week in January, and 
annually thereafter, and such board shall keep a record of its 
action in all matters in a proper minute book. The minutes and 
accounts of such board shall be open to examination and inspec- 
tion as any other records of township trustees under the laws of 
this state. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 6. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby 
repealed. Provided, however, That any litigation pending under 
such former laws or under the act of which this act is amenda- 
tory, wherein a contract has been let shall not be affected by such 
repeal but the same shall proceed to final disposition as if such 
laws were not repealed ; Provided, further. That where any pro- 
ceeding is pending in any township or townships of this state, at 
the time of the taking effect of this act, for the consolidation of 
any of the schools of any such township or townships, or for the 
purpose of establishing a joint high school and elementary school 
therein, then and in that event any such proceeding so pending 
shall in all cases have precedence over any proceeding which may 
thereafter be instituted under the provisions of this act. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing amends Sections 256 and 257, School Laws, 1917. 



AN ACT providing for the examination of and granting diplomas to any 
honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine who served in the 
world way and who has been placed in training by the federal 
board for vocational training and who shall upon examination show 
suitable proficiency. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 241.] 

Soldiers, Sailors and Marines — Vocational Training — High 
School Diploma. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or ma- 
rine who served in the world war and who has been placed in 
training by the federal board for vocational training, shall, if 
the course which he shall have elected to pursue covers the 
branches of learning taught in the high schools of the state, be 
entitled to take a special examination upon the completion of such 



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course, or at the end of any year's study, to ascertain his compe- 
tency and proficiency in the branches in which he is examined. 
If any such person shall make a satisfactory passing grade in'a 
sufficient number of subjects to constitute the equivalent of a high 
school course, he shall be granted a (^iploma, to be issued by the 
state board of education, and to be signed by the state superin- 
tendent of public instruction. The questions to be used in testing 
the proficiency of such persons shall be prepared by the state 
superintendent of public instruction and the state superintendent 
of public instruction shall make such arrangements, including 
both time and place, as may be most desirable and convenient for 
persons making application to be examined, and shall provide 
for the examination of all papers and manuscripts submitted. 



AN ACT concerning the apportionment and distribution of the state com- 
mon school tuition fund, and declaring an emergency. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 107.] 

State Aid School Fund. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That the state superintendent of public instruction 
at the time of making the apportionment of school revenue in the 
months of June, 1921, and January, 1922, as provided by law, shall 
deduct from the sum derived from the five and six-tenths cents 
(5.6c) state tuition common school tax now provided by law, in 
addition to the state aid deficiency school fund now deducted by 
law from the fund derived from said state tuition tax levy, two 
hundred thousand dollars (|200,000) in the month of June, 1921, 
and two hundred thousand dollars (|200,000) in the month of 
January, 1922 ; which specific amounts when so deducted, or such 
portion thereof as may be necessary, shall supplement the defici- 
ency state aid school fund and shall be distributed by the state 
superintendent of public instruction and be used to aid schools 
in poorer school corporations for the school years 1920-1921 and 
1921-1922 in the manner provided by an act entitled, "An Act to 
amend sections 2, 3, 4 and 6 of an act entitled 'An act providing 
for the levy of an annual tax for a state common school tuition 
fund and providing for its apportionment and distribution, and 
declaring an emergency,' " approved February 21, 1905; and to 
amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend sections 5 
and 8 of an act entitled 'An act providing for the levy of an an- 



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nnal tax for a state common school tuition fund, and providing 
for its apportionment and distribution, and declaring an emer- 
gency,' approved February 24, 1905", approved March 11, 1907, 
found on page 839 of tlie Acts of the General Assembly of the 
State of Indiana of 1919, and other laws supplemental and amen- 
datory therefor. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 2. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in force and effect from and 
after its passage. 



AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled *'x\n act providing for the 
consolidation of schools in incorporated towns or cities of the fifth class 
with the schools of the township in which such town or city is 
situated, providing for the management, control and maintenance 
thereof, and providing for the repair of old school buildings and 
the building of new ones, and for the issuance of bonds in payment 
thereof, and declaring an emergency," which became a law without 
the signature of the governor (1917), and authorizing the consolidation 
of schools under said act when elections have been held under said 
act in an incorporated town or city of the fifth class and the township 
in which such town or city is located or in which the major part of 
such town or city is located. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 216.] 

Consolidation of Schools Authorized. 

Section 1. Be it enacted ty the General AssemMy of the Mate 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That the school trustees of any incor- 
porated town or city of the fifth class and the school trustee of the 
township in which such town or city is located, or, in which the 
major part of such town or city is located, are hereby author- 
ized and empowered to consolidate the elementary schools, or high 
schools, or both, of said corporations or to furnish school facilities 
for children of school age of both school corporations in the man- 
ner and upon the conditions hereinafter prescribed. 

Legalizing. 

Sec. 2. Whenever the school trustees of any incorporated town 
or city of tlie fifth class and the trustees of the township in which 
such incorporated town or city is located or in which the major 



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part of such town or city is located, shall have held an election 
under the provisions of this act and when such election shall have 
resulted in favor of such consolidation in both corporations, and 
when such school trustees have not drawn up permanent articles 
of incorporation, such school trustees and such township trustee 
are hereby authorized and empowered to draw up permanent 
articles of agreement, and to govern and conduct their joint 
school or schools in the manner and under the provisions herein- 
after prescribed, and all acts, orders and proceedings of such 
school trus1;ees and such township trustee or either of them in any 
election heretofore held under the provisions of this act in cases 
where such city or incorporated town is not situated wholly 
within any such township are hereby legalized and validated in 
all respects whatsoever and declared binding. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Section 258 of the School Laws of 1917, the 
same being found in the Acts of 1917, P. 545. 



AN ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to amend section one 
of an act entitled 'An act to amend the first section of an act to enable 
counties to receive donations of buildings and grounds for high school 
purposes, and to provide for the maintenance of the same, and to 
declare an emergency in force March 11, 1889,' approved February 17, 
1905," approved March 15, 1913. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 236.] 

County Hig-h School — Donations — Property May be Given to the 
Township. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assenibly of the State 
of Indiatia, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That section one of an act entitled an 
act to amend the first section of an act to enable counties to re- 
ceive donations of buildings and grounds for high school purposes 
and to provide for the maintenance of the same, and to declare an 
emergency, approved February 17, 1905, be and the same is here- 
by amended to read as follows : Section 1. That whenever any 
person or persons shall donate to any county of the state, any 
building, or buildings, together with the necessary grounds, of 
the value of not less than ten thousand dollars (|10,000), in 
counties having a population of less than twenty-five thousand 
(25,000) and of the value of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) 
in counties having a population in excess of twenty-five thousand 
(25,000) for the purpose of maintaining a county high school or 



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county agricultural school therein, the board of county commis- 
sioners of such county may accept such donation for the purpose 
herein named. 

Whenever the board of commissioners of any county contem- 
plated in this act shall have accepted the donation of any building 
or buildings, together with the grounds appurtenant thereto, as 
hereinbefore provided, such board of commissioners may, at any 
time thereafter, donate such building or buildings, together with 
the ground appurtenant thereto, to the trustee of the school town- 
ship in which such building or buildings and grounds are situated 
for the purpose of maintaining a township high school and a town- 
ship elementary school or a consolidated school or either of them, 
therein, and the trustee of such township may accept such dona- 
tion on behalf of such school township for the purpose herein des- 
ignated, and upon the acceptance thereof such building or build- 
ings and the grounds appurtenant thereto shall be the property 
of such school township, and shall thereafter be used and main- 
tained for school purposes in the same manner as other property 
belonging to such school township is used and maintained. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Section 202 of the School Laws of 1917, the same 
being found in the Acts of 1913. P. 763. 



AN ACT concerning the serving of lunches in public schools in cities of the 
lirst and second clas». 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 202.] 

School Lunches in School Cities of 1st and 2nd Class. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General AssemMy of the State 
of Indiana^ That whenever in the judgment of the board of school 
commissioners of any city of the first and second class, it will tend 
to promote the health of school children and thereby advance the 
edjicational work of the schools, such board of school commission- 
ers may provide for the serving of lunches to the pupils in attend- 
ance at any school or schools in such city, and for such purpose, 
may establish kitchens and lunch rooms and .provide equipment 
suitable therefor and make all other necessary provisions for the 
furnishing and serving of lunches, and may also employ a director 
of such work and such other assistants or employees as may be 
necessary. 



ioe 

Expense — How Borne. 

Sec. 2. The expense of providing suitable accommodations and 
equipment for such school lunches and of operating and carrying 
on the same, as hereinabove authorized, shall be borne and paid 
for in the same manner and out of the same funds as are available 
for other costs and expenses in connection with the common 
schools of such school corporation : Provided^ hoivevery That ex- 
cept as to overhead expense, the furnishing and serving of such 
lunches to the pupils of schools in any such city shall as nearly as 
practicable be made self-sustaining, but nothing herein shall pre- 
vent said school authorities, in their discretion from providing 
lunches free to any pupil or pupils in any school who are needy 
and unable to pay for the same. 



AN ACT to amend an act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act 
to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled 
an act to classify and regulate the minimum wages of teachers in pub- 
lic schools,' approved March 2, 1907, approved March 1, 1911, and 
to amend section 2 of an act entitled 'an act to classify and regulate 
tiie minimum wages of teachers in public schools,' approved February 
28, 1913, approved March 15, 1919, 

[Acts of 1920, Special Session, Page 195.] 

Daily Wage of Teachers. 

Section 1. Be it eAiacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That the daily wages of teachers for 
teaching in the public schools of the state shall not be less in the 
case of beginning teachers, than an amount determined by multi- 
plying four and one-fourth cents by the general average given 
such teacher on his highest grade of license at the time of con- 
tracting. For teachers having had a successful experience for one 
school year of not less than six months, the daily wages shalF^be 
not less than an amount determined by multiplying- four and 
three-fourths cents by the general average given such teacher on 
his highest grade of license at the time of contracting. For teach- 
ers having had a successful experience of three or more school 
years of not less than six months each, the daily wages shall be not 
less than an amount determined by multiplying five and one-half 
cents by the general average given such teacher on his highest 
grade of license at the time of contracting. For teachers having 
had a successful experience of five or more school years of not less 



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than six months each, the daily wages shall be not less than an 
amount dotermined by multiplying six cents by the general aver- 
age given such teacher on his highest grade of license at the time 
of contracting. All teachers now exempt from examination shall 
be paid, as daily wages for teaching in the public schools, not less 
than an amount determined by multiplying six and one-half cents 
by the general average of scholarship and success given such 
teacher: Provided, That the grade of scholarship accounted in 
each case be that given at the teacher's last examination, and that 
the grade of success accounted, be that of the teacher's term last 
preceding the date of contract : And, Promded, further^ That two 
per cent shall be added to the teacher's general average scholar- 
ship and success for attending the county institute the full num- 
ber of days, and that said two per cent shall be added to the aver- 
age scholarship of beginning teachers: Provided, further, That 
the minimum paid to any teacher in the common schools of this 
state shall not be less than $800 per school year. 

NOTE 1 : TTie foregoing «*imencls Section 1, Acts of 1919, page 768, which amended 
Section 123 of the School Laws of 1917. 



AN ACT to amend the title and sections one (1), two (2), six (6) and 
eleven (11) of an act entitled "An act entitled An act concerning 
annuities for aged, infirm, disabled, diseased or retired teachers in 
cities having a population of not less than 55,000 nor more than 
60,000, according to the last preceding United States census, and 
declaring an emergency," approved March 5, 1913. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 52.] 

Bf)ard of Managers — How Selected. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That section one (1) of the above entitled act be and 
the same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 1. That 
in every city in the State of Indiana, having a population of not 
less than 56,000 nor more than 70,000, according to the last pre- 
ceding United States census, there may be created a teachers' 
retirement fund, which shall be governed and managed by a board 
of commissioners, to be composed of five members, as follows: 
The president of the board of school trustees of such city, the 
superintendent of public schools, one principal and two teachers 
regularly employed in the public schools of such city. Said prin- 



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cipal and teachers shall be selected at a meeting of the public 
school teachers of such city on the fourth Saturday of March, 
1921, in such manner and at such place or places as shall be de- 
termined and designated by the board of school trustees of such 
city; and that thereafter there shall be selected on the first Sat- 
urday of March of each year one principal and two teachers as 
members of such board of commissioners. The commissioners 
shall hold their offices until their successors shall be selected or 
elected as above set forth. In the event of a vacancy upon said 
board occasioned by the death, resignation or disability or either 
of said principal or teachers, then the public school teachers of 
said city shall, within a reasonable time, upon the call of the 
president of said board of commissioners, hold a special meeting 
and elect a successor or successors. A majority of said commis- 
sioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business 
pertaining to said retirement fund. Said commissioners shall 
receive no pay for their services as such, except the secretary and 
assistant treasurer, each of whom may be paid such sums for serv- 
ices as may be fixed by the board of commissioners: Provided, 
however. That if any one shall act as such secretary or assistant 
treasurer who shall receive any of the benefits of said retirement 
fund, as hereinafter provided, the amount of the salary so received 
by such secretary or assistant treasurer shall be deducted from 
the amount to which he or she would otherwise be entitled as a 
beneficiary. 

Organization of Board — Pov^ers and Duties. 

Sec. 2. That section two (2) of the above entitled act be an* 
the same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 2. Said 
board of commissioners shall elect from among its number a 
president, vice-president and secretary. The president shall pre- 
side at the meetings of the board and perform all other duties 
usual to such office. The vice-president shall perform the duties 
of the president in his absence. It shall be the duty of the sec- 
retary to keep a true and accurate account of the proceedings of 
said board of commissioners, and of the teachers of such city when 
acting upon matters with relation to said fund, and to turn over 
to his or her successor all books and papers pertaining to such 
office. Said board of commissioners shall also elect a person not 
of their number as assistant treasurer, and it shall be his or her 
duty to keep a true and correct statement of the account of each 



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member with said retirement fund, to collect and turn over to the 
treasurer of said board all moneys belonging to said fund, and to 
render to the board a monthly account of his or her doings. He 
or she shall furnish bond in such amount as shall be determined 
and required by said board of commissioners and the board of 
commissioners shall allow him or her such compensation for his 
or her services as it may deem proper. 

The treasurer of such city shall be ex-officio ^he treasurer of 
said board of commissioners, and he shall receive and hold all 
moneys belonging to such teachers retirement fund ; he shall have 
the custody of all notes, bonds and other securities belonging to 
said fund, and shall collect the principal and interest of the same 
and shall be liable on his bond as such city treasurer for the per- 
formance of all the duties imposed upon him by this act and for 
the faithful accounting of all moneys and securities, including 
both principal and interest, which may come into his hands and 
which shall belong to such retirement fund. And he shall keep a 
separate account, which shall show at all times the true condition 
of such fund. Said treasurer, shall upon the expiration of his 
term of office, account to said board of commissioners for all 
moneys, notes, bonds and other securities coming into his hands, 
and for the interest, income, profits, rentals and proceeds of and 
from the same, and he shall turn over to his successor all moneys, 
notes, bonds and other securities belonging to said fund. 

The secretary, treasurer and assistant treasurer shall make a 
full, true and accurate report of their offices and trusts at each 
annual meeting of such teachers in March of each year. Their 
books shall at all times be open to inspection or examination. 

Amount of Pension — Withdrawal. 

Sec. 3. That section 6 of the above entitled act be and the same 
is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 6. Said teachers' 
retirement fund shall be used and devoted in the manner and 
for the purposes as follows : Any person electing the provisions 
of this act who shall have rendered twenty years or more of service 
in the public schools, twelve of which may have been in public 
schools outside of said city of not less than 56,000 nor more than 
70,000 inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States 
census, who ceases to be in the employ of the board of school 



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trustees for any cause, shall be entitled to an annuity in accord- 
ance with the following schedule : 

For 20 years of service |300.00 

For 21 years of service 325.00 

For 22 years of service 350.00 

For 23 years of service. 375.00 

For 2r# years of service 400.00 

For 25 years of service 430 .00 

For 26 years of service 460 . 00 

For 27 years of service 490.00 

For 28 years of service 525 . 00 

For 29 years of service 560 . 00 

For 30 years of service '. 600.00 

Provided, That no teacher in the service of said board of school 
trustees at the time of the passage of this act may be credited with 
more than twenty-five (25) years of service. 

Such annuities shall be paid in four equal payments as follows : 
On January first, April first, July first and October first, of each 
year. i 

In the event that any teacher electing the provisions of this act 
for any reason leaves the services of the board of school trustees 
before said teacher has been credited with twenty (20) years of 
service, such teacher shall be entitled to withdraw from the treas- 
ury of said teachers' retirement fund, such sum as will equal all 
payments made by such teacher into the treasury of this fund as 
fees, without interest : Provided, jurtlier, That in the event that 
such teacher subsequently returns to the employ of the board of 
school trustees, such teacher shall be required to refund to said 
fund the amount so withdrawn, with interest thereon at the rate 
of 5 per cent, per annum, such sum to be so refunded within one 
(1) year from the date of his or her return to service in the schools 
of said city of not less than 56,000 nor more than 70,000 inhabi- 
tants. In the event of the death of any teacher electing the provis- 
ions of this act, before such teacher has been retired upon an an- 
nuity, then and in that case the heirs or legatees of such deceased 
teacher, shall be entitled to a sum out of said fund equal to the 
sum paid into said fund by such deceased teacher, without inter- 
est: Provided, further, That no teacher retiring before being 
credited with thirty (30) years of service may be entitled to an 
annuity unless such teacher be granted such annuity by the board 



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of commissioners of said retirement fund at the time of such re- 
tirement. 

Term "Teacher" Defined. 

Sec. 4. That section 11 of the above entitled act be and the 
same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 11. The term 
"teacher" as used in this act shall mean and include the superin- 
tendent of schools, the secretary to the superintendent, any prin- 
cipal, assistant principal, assistant superintendent, supervisor, 
assistant supervisor, person in charge of any special department 
of instruction, teacher-clerk, and any teacher or instructor now 
or hereafter regularly employed as such by the board of school 
trustees of such city. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 5. That the title to the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : An act concerning annuities for aged, infirm, 
disabled, diseased or retired teachers in cities having a population 
of not less than 56,000 nor more than 70,000 according to the last 
preceding United States census, and declaring an emergency. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 6. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and 
after its passage. 

NOTE 1: The foregoing amends Sections 959, 960, 964 and 969 of the School 
Laws of 1917. 



AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act concerning boards of school trus- 
tees in cities of more than thirty-six thousand inhabitants, and 
less than- forty thousand inhabitants," approved March 5, 1909. 

[Acs of 1921, Chapter 53.] 

Repeal. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana^ That an act entitled ''An act concerning boards of 
school trustees in cities of more than thirty-six thousand inhabi- 
tants, and less than forty thousand inhabitants," approved March 
5, 1909, be and the same is hereby repealed. 



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Emergency. 

Sec. 2. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from 
and after its passage. 



AN ACT concerning teachers contracts and providing for tlie repeal of 

conflicting laws. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 91.] 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General AssemMy of the State 
of Indiana^ That all contracts hereafter made by and between 
teachers and school corporations shall be in writing; shall state 
the date of the beginning of the school term; the number of 
months in the school term; the total amount of the salary to be 
paid during the school year; and the number of payments that 
shall be made during the school year ; provided that in this act, a 
month shall mean not more than twenty school days. 

Teachers May Collect Pay When Schools Are Closed. 

Sec. 2. If, during the term of a teacher's contract the school or 
schools are closed by order of the school corporation, or by order 
of the health authorities, or if, through no fault of the teacher, 
school cannot be held, such teacher shall receive regular pay- 
ments during such time the school or schools are closed. Provided 
that schools may be closed for a period of not over two weeks for 
Christmas holidays without payment of salaries for teachers for 
such time; provided that such closing the school for Christmas 
holidays shall not be construed to shorten the length of the school 
term. 

Paying Teachers When Absent. 

Sec. 3. Each school corporation may adopt regulations govern- 
ing the payment or part-payment of teachers who may be absent 
because of sickness or because of attending school conventions or 
meetings, or because of visiting schools, or because of death in the 
immediate family, and may make such payments in accordance 
therewith. 



Resignation — Written Notice. 

Sec. 3I/2. That if any teacher in the public schools of this state 
or any teacher who shall have entered into a contract to teach in 



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any of the public schools in this state, shall violate the contract by 
resigning, without giving fifteen days' notice in writing to the 
other party to the contract, such violation shall be additional 
grounds for the revocation of said teacher's license as now pro- 
vided by law : Provided^ however, That either party to such con- 
tracts may cancel the same by giving fifteen days' written notice 
and Provided, further. That the parties may mutually agree to a 
cancellation of the contract. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 4. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby 
repealed. 



TEACHER'S CONTRACT 

Official Form for Township, Town, and City Teachers. 

(Strike out the words which do not apply) 

This Contract between ( School Township) 

( School Corporation of the Town of ) ( School 

Corporation of the city of ) in 

County, Indiana, hereinafter called employer and 

a teacher who holds a license, issued , 19 .... , 

for months, by 

Superintendent ; on which license h average scholarship is 

per cent., h last success grade is 

per cent., who was present at all of the sessions of the 

County Institute in 19 .... , WITNESSETH : That 

in consideration of the agreements hereinafter contained said 
teacher agrees to teach in the Public Schools of said (School 
Township) (School Town) (School City) in such building, room, 
and such grade or grades as shall be designated by such employer, 
for the school term of months com- 
mencing on the day of , 19 

Said teacher agrees to faithfully perform all the duties of a teach- 
er in said school ; to use only such text books as are prescribed by 
said employer in accordance with the law, and to observe all rules 
and regulations of the properly constituted school authorities ; to 
attend and participate in the exercises of each institute or other 
teachers' meetings that may be appointed for the teachers of said 
school corporation ; to use and keep accurately all registers and 



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blanks placed in h . . . . hands by said employer and to make a com- 
plete and accurate report at the close of the school term, the blank 
for which is provided on the back of this sheet ; to make all other 
reports required of h . . . . by said employer, the Superintendent, or 
the laws of Indiana ; to exercise due diligence in the preservation 

of all school property committed to h care, and to turn the 

same over to the employer or his representative, at the close of the 
term of school, in as good condition as when received, damage and 
wear by use excepted, accompanied by an inventory of all supplies 
and apparatus on hands, a description of the condition of the 
same, and a recommended list of materials to be purchased for 
the next succeeding school year. 

The employer agrees to keep the school buildings in good repair, 
to furnish the necessary fuel, furniture, apparatus, books, and 
blanks, and such other appliances as may be necessary for the 
systematic and proper conduct of said school, and to provide such 
janitor help as may be necessary to properly care for said school 
and its premises. 

And said employer further agrees to pay the said 

for services as teacher of said school 

corporation, the sum of dollars for the 

school year of months — said sum tolbe paid in 

equal payments (semi-monthly) (monthly) dur- 
ing said school year. 

Said employer further agrees to pay said teacher one day's 
wages for each day's attendance at the Saturday teachers' insti- 
tute, which shall be held monthly in the school township and may 
be so held at the option of the employer in the school city or 
school town. 

It is agreed by the parties hereto. That in case the said 

should be dismissed from 

said school by said employer, or successor . . in office, for 

incompetency, cruelty, gross immorality, neglect of business, or 
violation of any of the stipulations of this contract, or in case h . . . 
license should be revoked by the County Superintendent, . . he shall 
not be entitled to any compensation after notice of dismissal, or 
notice of annulment of license. 

It is further agreed by the contracting parties that in case the 
school is closed during the school year by order of the school 
Trustee. ., or by order of the health authorities, or if through no 
fault of the teacher the school cannot be continued in session, the 



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said teacher shall receive h. . . . regular payments during the time 
the school is so closed, except the said employer may close the 
schools not exceeding two weeks for Christmas holidays without 
paying the said teacher, provided that the Christmas holiday va- 
cation shall not be counted to shorten the length of the school 
term. 

It is further agreed that either party to this contract may can- 
cel the same by giving to the other party thereto fifteen days writ- 
ten notice. 

This contract is executed in duplicate this day 

of , 19. . . ., and each party has a copy thereof. 



School Trustee (Trustees) 

Teacher 

NOTES : 

1. A contract to teach in the public schools is not valid unless 
it is in writing. 

2. A valid contract cannot be executed to teach in the public 
schools unless the teacher holds at the time of making the 
contract, a valid county or state license. 

3. Full authority is given a Trustee to substitute the words 
"principal," "supervisor," or "superintendent," for the word 
"teacher," in the event the contract should be so made. 

1. This contract form is the oificial blank made by the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction according to Section 
6595 Burns' K. S. 1914. 

5. A teacher's contract, according to Chapter 91 of the Acts of 
1921, must stipulate the date of the beginning of the school 
term, the number of months of the school term, tlie total 
salary for the school year, and the number of salary pay- 
ments. 

G. The minimum salary for the school year is eight hundred 
dollars. The township institute fee may be counted as a 
part of this amount. 

7. The township institute fee cannot be paid out of the tuition 
fund. 

S. School Trustees are authorized to adopt rules and regula- 
tions under which they will pay teachers their wages when 
such teachers are absent from school on account of sickness 



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or because of attending school conventions or meetings, or 
because of visiting schools, or because of death in the im- 
mediate family. Where a school corporation has adopted 
such regulations it is legal to pay such teachers during such 
absences. 



TEACHER'S REPORT TO SCHOOL TRUSTEE-. 



2. 



5. 



6. 



Total number of pupils enrolled during the year 19. . in: 
ELEMENTARY 



First Grade . . . 
Second Grade , 
Third Grade.. 
Fourth Grade. 



Fifth Grade... 
Sixth Grade... 
Seventh Grade, 
Eighth Grade . , 



HIGH SCHOOL 



First Year. 
Second Year 



Third Year 

Fourth Year 

Total number of pupils enrolled in all the Elementary and High Schools 

for the year 19 

Total number of pupils enrolled during the year 19 : 

rWhite (White :.. 

Malej J Females < Total 

I Colored [Colored 

Average daily attendance of all children in the schools : 

rWhite 

J , , General Average 

I Colored 

Average daily absence of all children in the schools : 



f White. 



. ^ , , General Average. 

I Colored 

Number of graduates from the "Common Branches" : 



Males < 



White. 



(^Colored. , 



Females -l 



r White, 



Colored , 



Total, 



Number of graduates from High School : 

rWhite rWhite... 

Males < Females J 

i Colored j Colored . 

Inventory of Apparatus and Supplies on hand. 
Books on separate sheet ) 



Total 

(Furnish list of Library 



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8. Recommended List of Materials and Supplies needed. 



NOTES : 1 — To find the average daily attendance : Divide the total number of days 
attended by all pupils, by the number of days school was in session. 

2 — =To find the average daily absence : Divide the total number of days of 
absence of all pupils by the number of days school was in session. 

3 — A pupil should be marked "withdrawn" after three days' absence. 



AN ACT to amend sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled "An act concern- 
ing county superintendents, their qualifications for office, compensa- 
tion, and providing for the appointment of assistants," approved 
March 2, 1911, providing for the appropriation and allowance of funds 
to carry out the provisions of this act, repealing "An act concerning 
the salaries of county superintendents of schools of the state," approved 
March 12, 1919, repealing "An act concerning the salaries of the 
county superintendents of schools in counties containing more than 
seventy-seven thousand inhabitants as shown by the last preceding 
United States census, and declaring an emergency," approved Feb- 
ruary 28, 1913, and declaring an emergency. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 54.] 

Qualifications of County Superintendent. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assenihly of the State 
of Indiana, That section 1 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 1. That no person shall be eligible to or 
shall hold the office of county superintendent of schools who has 
not had 3 years successful teaching experience in public schools 
and who does not hold at the time of election a professional or life 
license, granted upon examination held by the state board of 
education; or a life state license granted by the state board of 
education upon a four year standard college course or a four year 
standard normal course ; or a county superintendent's certificate 
granted without examination by the state board of education to a 
graduate of a four year standard college or a four year standard 
normal; provided that nothing in this act shall apply to disqualify 
anyone for election to the office of county superintendent of 
schools before September 1, 1921, who has qualified under section 
1 of the act amended by this section, and provided further that 
nothing in this act shall apply to disqualify at any time any in- 
cumbent of the office of county superintendent who shall have 
qualified under section 1 of the act amended by this section. 



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Salary. 

Sec. 2. That section 2 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 2. The county superintendent of schools 
shall receive a salary of not less than fifteen hundred (|1,500) 
annually. The township trustees, by and with the consent of the 
board of county commissioners of the county, are hereby author- 
ized and empowered to increase this salary to such an amount 
as, in the judgment of the majority of such township trustees, the 
conditions in the county and the work required of the county su- 
perintendent therein may in their judgment justify. Such salary 
shall be paid to the county superintendent of schools in monthly 
installments out of the treasury of the county upon a warrant of 
the county auditor, provided, however, that nothing in this act 
shall be so construed as to reduce the salary which any county su- 
perintendent of schools now receives. 

Traveling" Expenses. 

Sec. 3. That section 3 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 3. The traveling expenses of the county 
superintendent, not exceeding fifty dollars (|50.00) per month, 
three hundred dollars (|300) in any school year incurred while in 
the discharge of his official duties, shall be paid by the county 
treasurer upon a warrant issued by the county auditor. The 
county superintendent shall make affidavit to the county auditor 
before such warrant shall be issued from the county auditor to 
the county treasurer. 

Assistant. 

Sec. 4. That section i of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 4. The township trustees may author- 
ize the county superintendent to appoint an assistant to assist 
him in the execution of his official duties if, in their judgment, 
such assistant is necessary. Such assistant shall be appointed by 
the county superintendent and shall work under his direction and 
supervision. Such assistant shall be employed for a number of 
days and at a salary to be determined by the township trustees of 
the county. The salary fixed by the township trustees for such an 
assistant shall be paid out of the county treasury upon warrant 
issued by the county auditor. 



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Appropriation. 

Sec. 5. Tlie county council shall appropriate and the county 
commissioners shall allow the necessary funds to carry out the 
provisions of this act. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 6. That an act entitled "An act concerning the salaries of 
the county superintendents of schools in counties containing more 
than seventy-seven thousand inhabitants as shown by the last pre- 
ceding United States census, and declaring an emergency", ap- 
proved February 28, 1913, and that "An act concerning the sal- 
aries of county superintendents of schools of the state", approved 
March 12, 1919, be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 7. Whereas an emergency exists, this act shall be in full 
force and effect from and after its passage. 

NOTE 1 : The foregoing repeals Sections 29 to 33, inclusive, of the School Laws 
of 1917, the same being found on P. 156, Acts of 1911, and on P. 77, 
Acts of 1913. It also repeals an act found on P. 445, Acts of 1919. 



AN ACT authorizing and empowering boards of trustees of school cities 
of all cities incorporated under the general laws of this state, and 
boards of trustees of school towns of all incorporated towns of this 
state to issue the bonds of such school cities and school towns for 
the purpose of funding or refunding their indebtedness heretofore in- 
curred for school purposes, and also any indebtedness which shall 
be incurred hereafter for school purposes ; providing for the cancel- 
lation of bonds, notes, warrants or other obligations of such indebted- 
ness already due or which shall hereafter become due ; designating the 
time such funding or refunding bonds shall run ; rate of interest they 
shall bear ; the manner of sale of such bonds, making it the duty of the 
boards of trustees of such school cities and towns to levy a tax for 
the payment of such bonds as and when they become due; repealing 
all laws in conflict herewith and declaring an emergency. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 193.] 

School Cities and School Towns May Issue Bonds For Refunding 
Purposes. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That in all cities of the State of Indiana, which are 
incorporated under the general laws of the state, and in all in- 



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corporated towns of this state, when the school city or school town 
of any such city or incorporated town is indebted for money here- 
tofore received and used for any school purpose, which indebted- 
ness is evidenced by bonds, notes, warrants or other obligations 
heretofore issued or negotiated by such school city or school town, 
is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and negotiate the 
bonds of such school city or school town for the purpose of fund- 
ing or refunding such indebtedness or any part thereof, and can- 
celling so much thereof as may be due or which shall become due. 
And any such school or school town in cities and towns incorpor- 
ated under the general laws of the state, that shall hereafter be- 
come indebted for any school purpose and which indebtedness is 
evidenced by bonds, notes, warrants or other obligations hereafter 
issued or negotiated by any such school city or school town for 
school purposes, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and 
negotiate the bonds of such school city or school town for the 
purpose of funding or refunding such indebtedness hereafter in- 
curred or any part thereof, and cancelling so much thereof as may 
be due or will become due. The bonds so issued shall be known as 
"School Funding Bonds", and the full time for which said bonds 
shall run shall be fifteen (15) years from the date of the issuance 
thereof, but such bonds may be issued in sums so that such portion 
thereof as the board of trustees of such school cities or school 
towns may determine may be made to mature at the end of any 
year within said period, or said bonds may be issued so that one- 
fifteenth (1/15) thereof shall fall due at the end of each year, and 
the portion when falling due, and the interest thereon, shall when 
due be paid and cancelled. Such bonds may be in any denomina- 
tions not less than fifty (50) dollars nor more than one thousand 
(1,000) dollars, and shall be payable at a place named therein and 
at a time not later than fifteen (15) years from the date thereof, 
bearing interest not exceeding five and one-half (5%) per cent, 
per annum, payable annually or semi-annually for which interest 
coupons may be attached to said bonds, and such boards of trus- 
tees may negotiate such bonds at any market or place at not less 
than par. 

Notice. 

Sec. 2. Preparatory to offering such bonds for sale the board of 
school trustees shall give notice for two (2) weeks of the date fixed 
for the sale of such bonds, together with a description of such 



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bonds, and such offer, and invite bids therefor. Such notice shall 
be given by advertisement once each week in at least one news- 
paper of general circulation published in such school city or school 
town, and if no such newspaper is published therein, then by post- 
ing such notice in five (5) public places in such city or town. And 
such school trustees shall also publish said notice one time in a 
newspaper of general circulation published in the city of Indi- 
anapolis, said notice to be published at least one week prior to 
the date fixed for the sale of said bonds. 

Special Tax. 

Sec. 3. The board of school trustees shall have the power to, 
and shall levy a special tax in addition to other taxes authorized 
by law to be levied, sufficient to pay the principal and interest 
on such bonds as and when they become due. 

Repeal. 

Sec. 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are re- 
pealed; but this law shall not affect or impair any bonds hereto- 
fore issued under any law in force at the time they were issued, 
nor shall it affect or be construed to repeal any law now 
in force, which authorizes specifically classed school cities to fund 
or refund their indebtedness. 

Emergency. 

Sec. 5. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate taking 
effect of this act, the same shall be in full force and effect from and 
after its passage. 



AN ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the 
election of school trustees in cities and incorporated towns, pre- 
scribing their terms of office and their powers and duties in relation 
thereto, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith," approved March 
6, 1905. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 277.] 

Cities of Certain Size. 

Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of tlie State 
of Indiana^ That section 2 of the above entitled act be amended to 
read as follows : Section 2. The provisions of this act shall not 



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apply to cities of over fifty-eight thousand inhabitants, according 
to the last preceding United States census. 

A CONCURRENT^KESOLUTION relative to an educational sur- 
vey of State of Indiana. 

WhbrbaS;, The efticiency and vitality of the school system of a 
commonwealth are fundamental to the progress, welfare and hap- 
piness of the people ; and 

Whereas, Public attention has been directed to the low rating 
of the Indiana school system, thus creating much speculation as 
to the causes of this low rank and the needed measures for im- 
provement; and 

Whereas^ There has never been a thorough and scientific study, 
by direct and first hand investigation, of the system of public edu- 
cation in Indiana ; and 

Whereas^ It is recognized that further progress and growth in 
efficiency of the system of public schools in this state imperatively 
demands readjustments of far-reaching importance ; and that 
these readjustments, whether of administrative organization and 
control, of apportionment and distribution of school revenues, of 
provision of adequate facilities for training teachers, or of im- 
provement in methods and materials of instruction, or other like 
problems, should be based upon a careful and impartial study of 
all the facts and conditions relating to the system of public educa- 
tion in Indiana ; Therefore 

Survey Commissions — Appointment — Powers and Duties. 

Section 1. Be it Resolved hy the Senate^ the House of Repre- 
sentatives Concurring^ That a commission of five to be known and 
designated as the Indiana Education Survey Commission, to be 
selected and appointed by the governor, is hereby created for the 
purpose of making an educational survey of the state of Indiana 
including the investigations hereinafter enumerated : 

1. To investigate the entire educational system of the state 
with a view to standardizing, unifying and correlating the various 
policies and agencies of such system in order that they may be in 
harmony with the educational requirements of the state. 

2, To suggest to the next General Assembly such revision of 
the school laws as may be necessary and to prepare drafts of pro- 
posed acts where changes are recommended. 



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3. To investigate inequalities in the educational advantages 
of the children in various sections of the state. 

4. To investigate the comparative needs and ex])enditures for 
elementary and higher education. 

5. To investigate the present and future needs of Purdue Uni- 
versity, Indiana University and the State Normal Schools, in 
order that they may meet the necessary educational requirements 
of the state. 

6. To investigate and determine the cost per student of those 
attending the schools of the state, including primary, secondary 
and advanced institutions of learning, and to recommend, if nec- 
essary, such methods and procedure as will eliminate extrava- 
gance and needless expenditure of money. 

7. To prepare and submit to the next General Assembly, a 
statement showing in detail the various sources of revenue of 
Indiana University, Purdue University and Indiana State Nor- 
mal School, together with a detailed statement of the expendi- 
ture of such funds. 

Written Report. 

Sec. 2. Upon the completion of such survey said commission 
shall make and file with the governor a report of its findings and 
recommendations, which said report shall be published for gen- 
eral distribution throughout the state not later than April 1, 1922. 
Said report shall be transmitted by the governor, together with 
such recommendations as he may see fit to make, to the regular 
session of the General Assembly of 1923. 

Expenses. 

Sec. 3. Any expense which may be incurred in carrying out the 
provisions of this resolution shall be paid by the governor out of 
any funds placed at his disposal for emergency and contingent 
purposes. 



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AN ACT authorizing school corporations to buy and sell real estate and 
buildings in cases where the schools or any part of the schools or 
school corporations are consolidated, providing for the appraisement of 
such real estate and buildings and authorizing school corporations 
to issue bonds for the purchase of such real" estate and buildings. 

[Acts of 1921, Chapter 177.] 

Section 1. Be it "enacted 'by the General Assembly of the State 
of Indiana, That whenever any two (2) school corportions, 
whether two (2) townships, two (2) towns, two (2) cities, or a 
city and a township or a town and a township, desire to consoli- 
date their respective schools or a part of their respective schools, 
whether graded schools or high schools, under any law permitting 
such consolidation, either of such school corporations may buy 
or sell any real estate or buildings from or to the other school 
corporation. That before any school corporation shall buy or sell 
any real estate, building, or buildings, or interest therein, it shall 
cause the same to be appraised by three (3) reputable citizens of 
the county to be appointed by the judge of the circuit court of the 
county wherein said corporation or either of them is situated, and 
the trustee or board of trustees of any such school corporation are 
hereby authorized to buy or sell as the case may be at such ap- 
praised value, and the corporation selling shall execute deeds for 
the interest purchased, and the corporation buying shall have 
the right to execute its bonds for the purpose of procuring money 
with which to buy any real estate, building or buildings or inter- 
est therein, or for the purpose of carrying out any of the provis- 
ions of this act, said bonds to be issued under the laws now in 
force providing for the issuing of bonds by said corporations. 

Sec. 2. Whereas an emergency exists this act shall be in full 
force and effect from and after its passage. 

Sec. 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are here- 
by expressly repealed. 



INDEX. 



ABANDONMENT OF SCHOOLS page 

abandonment of school town which has a school indebtedness 22 

in towns 16 

ANNEXED TERRITORY 

for school purposes, reimbursement 32 

APPORTIONMENT OF STATE TUITION FUND 52 

ATTENDANCE OFFICERS 

appointment, powers, and duties 68-76 

BONDS 

for refunding purposes 119-121 

may borrow money in both school and civil township 35 

school and civil townships to issue bonds in emergency cases ..... 65 
school improvement bonds — notice — sale 33 

COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAW 68-71 

attendance officers — appointment, powers and duties 68-76 

minors — employment of 76^84 

state attendance officers 71 

State Board of Attendance 70 

CONGRESSIONAL TOWNSHIP SCHOOL LANDS 20 

CONSOLIDATION 98-101, 124 

by town and township, or city of the fifth class and township 103 

town and township schools . . . .' 19 

CONTRACTS 

with teachers 112, 113 

COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL 104 

COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING 18 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT 

qualifications 117 

salary and expenses 118 

assistant 118 

DAILY WAGE FOR TEACHERS 106 

DEFICIENCY SCHOOL FUND 52-56 

ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL INSPECTORS 66, 67 

EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS 

( See compulsory attendance law) 76-84 

ENGLISH 

elementary school subjects to be taught in English 3 

GERMAN 

forbidden in elementary schools 3 

forbidden in high schools 4 



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HIGH SCHOOLS 

county high school 18 

joint city and township liigh schools 25 

location of building 24 

13etition for high school 63 

subject to be taught 4 

INDIANA BOYS' SCHOOL 

course of study 67, 68 

INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

state tax rate 43 

INDIANA STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND 87-98 

INDIANA UNIVERSITY ^ 

state tax rate 43 

free contingent fees for students 15 

JOINT SCHOOLS 

betwen Indiana and another state 86 

between township, town or city 60 

board of control, powers and duties 27 

city and township high school 25 

consolidated school district. 26 

joint elementary and high schools 26 

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 

course of study 15 

teachers in — qualifications 16 

transfers and admission to 16 

KINDERGARTENS 

establishment 21 

LIFE CERTIFICATES FOR TEACHERS 5, 6, 10 

MINORS— EMPLOYMENT OF 

age limit — issuing of employment certificates 76-84 

PENSIONS 

for teachers 87-98 

for teachers in cities having a population of 56,000 to 70,000. . .107-111 

PHYSICAL EDUCATION 31 

PURDUE UNIVERSITY 

Agricultural Experiment Station — tax for — appropriation 50, 51 

state tax rate 43 

SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION 98-101, 124 

SCHOOL GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS 

emergency for 65 

SCHOOL LUNCHES 

in school cities of first and second class 105 

SCHOOL PROPERTY— SALE OF 85 

SCHOOL TRANSFERS 11, 12 

per capita cost — how determined 45 

transfers to town or city high school 17 



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SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION 

hack drivers 11 

pupils oiititlod to tmnsportation 12 

unlawful to pass hack while unloading !.'> 

SCHOOLS— IN CITIES WITH TOI'ULATION OF 58,000 TO 70,000 

school board-^qualitications, salary, etc 40-50 

SCHOOL TRUSTEES 

election in towns and cities 14 

SCHOOL TRUSTEES IN CITIES WITH POPULATION OF 80,000 

TO 100,000 ■ 50 

school board — appointment, qualifications, etc 5G-G0 

temporary loans 59 

SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES 

examinations for high school diploma 101 

STATE AID FOR SCHOOLS T. . . .52-56, 102 

STxYTE ATTENDANCE OFFICERS 

(see compulsory attendance laws) 71 

STATE BOARD OF ATTENDANCE 

(see compulsory school attendance) 70 

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH 

decisions of, subject to appeal 20 

STATE BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 

to serve as State Rehabilitation Board 62 

STATE TEACHERS' TRAINING BOARD 

powers and duties 4, 5, 6, 7 

STATE TUITION TAX RATE 52 

SUCCESS GRADE 

for teachers in late war 32 

SURVEY COMMISSION 

appointment, powers, and duties 122 

TEACHERS 

daily wage 106 

contract to be in writing 112 

fee for life certificates 9 

form of written contract 113 

life certificates 5, 6, 10 

may collect pay when schools are closed 112 

minimum salary for the school year 107 

provisional certificates 8 

resignation — written notice 112 

supervisors' certificates 9 

TEXT BOOKS 

commission of text book dealers 42 

school trustees may handle books 43 

text book dealers . . , , , , 42 



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TRANSPORTATION 11 

pupils entitled to transportation •. . . . 12 

TUITION FUND 

amount to be levied ; 35 

may borrow money 35 

supplementary tuition fund 35 

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION "7. 36-41 

acceptance of Federal Rehabilitation Act 61-63 



